All Quotes

Fear is not a motivating factor. You might be able to get a little bit more out of someone in the short term, but you will completely erode your business and your culture in the long term. You're going to lose all your good people. You're not going to have people tell you the truth, and it becomes the tradition.
‐‐ Mindy Grossman

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
‐‐ Tacitus

Fear is not one of my attributes.
‐‐ Bernie Mac

Fear is one of the elements of nonlethal weaponry. You're going to get hurt, and you don't want to get hurt. Pepper spray hurts. You don't want to be sprayed. That's why it's a useful deterrent as a nonlethal weapon - I'm not advocating spraying people randomly.
‐‐ Greg Rucka

Fear is one of the worst, and most limiting, emotions in life.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

Fear is one of those really primal emotions which you don't want to have incredibly exciting modulations and complex harmonies and all that kind of stuff.
‐‐ Steven Price

Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.
‐‐ Boman Irani

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
‐‐ Aristotle

Fear is real, but so is love.
‐‐ Alice Walker

Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.
‐‐ James McAvoy

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

Fear is something I try not to absorb.
‐‐ Mark E. Smith

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.
‐‐ Peter McWilliams

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.
‐‐ Andrew Shue

Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.
‐‐ Elaine Stritch

Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.
‐‐ Debbie Ford

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
‐‐ Gary Busey

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
‐‐ Benjamin Whichcote

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.
‐‐ Andrea Riseborough

Fear is the foundation of most governments.
‐‐ John Adams

Fear is the foundation of safety.
‐‐ Tertullian

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.
‐‐ Henri Nouwen

Fear is the highest fence.
‐‐ Dudley Nichols

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
‐‐ Arnold H. Glasow

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.
‐‐ Moshe Sharett

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
‐‐ Pat Conroy

Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.
‐‐ Kevyn Aucoin

Fear is the mother of foresight.
‐‐ Thomas Hardy

Fear is the mother of morality.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
‐‐ Edward Albert

Fear is the parent of cruelty.
‐‐ James Anthony Froude

Fear is the passion of slaves.
‐‐ Patrick Henry

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
‐‐ George Sewell

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

Fear is there. Anything can happen at an Olympics. I want to use the experience I gained from Athens and Beijing - the fear, too - and build a me that can't lose. I will do everything to make sure I win a third gold medal in London. That target drives me. I'm bulking up and have more power now. I'll be fighting fit to take the gold back home.
‐‐ Saori Yoshida

Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.
‐‐ Joy Page

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.
‐‐ Thich Nhat Hanh

Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
‐‐ John Burroughs

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
‐‐ Shirley MacLaine

Fear makes us feel our humanity.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Fear makes you do stupid things.
‐‐ Ricardo Salinas Pliego

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
‐‐ Viktor E. Frankl

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
‐‐ Oliver Stone

Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.
‐‐ Donald Cargill

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
‐‐ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
‐‐ John Henry Newman