1,008 Quotes Regarding Fear


I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
Emma Watson

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Samuel Ullman

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
Alfred Eisenstaedt

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Fear is the mother of foresight.
Thomas Hardy

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
Adam Smith

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
Cyril Connolly

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
Giovanni Falcone

The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.
Thomas Frank

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.
David Duchovny

The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.
Ang Lee

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
J. G. Ballard

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
LL Cool J

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
Jack Nicholson

My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
Halle Berry

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.
Julia Child

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
Calvin Klein

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.
Leighton Meester