Fear Quotes

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.

Joyce Maynard

The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Joyce Meyer

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

Joyce Meyer

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

Joyce Meyer

Obviously I'm going to be polite, so nobody has anything to fear from me.

Judith Martin

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

Jack Nicholson

I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.

Jack Nicklaus

A lot of people of my Ulster Protestant background would have been very suspicious of the notion of a film about Bloody Sunday. Our fear would have been that it would be terribly anti-Britain and anti-soldiers: a piece of nationalist propaganda.

James Nesbitt

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

James Northcote

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

Joel Osteen

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Joel Osteen

As any Brit will understand, things get a little easier when you don't have to be number one any more. Really, the fall of an empire is not as bad as everyone thinks. It's like retirement. People fear retirement, but it can turn out be rather pleasan...

John Oliver

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

John Ortberg

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

James K. Polk

When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.

J. D. Pardo

I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of confidence.

Jean Pigozzi

The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get.

Joe Perry

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

John Charles Polanyi

What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing.

Joseph Prince

I always worked pretty steadily. But maybe out of some kind of fear, I put the brakes on letting myself be as successful as I'd like to be. More and more, I've taken the brakes off and let whatever happens happen.

Josh Pais

When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe the people are not going to accept what I'm doing today. That's bad for any artist, especially if what you're doing is not in line with what'...

Jimmy Rushing