Top 131 Fearful Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Fearful Quotes from famous people such as Daniel H. Pink, Sherrod Brown, Peter Landesman, Rene Russo, Warren Buffett, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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If people are worried, if they’re fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they’re not being treated properly or that they’re not being paid fairly, what you’re going to have is you’re going to have people doing the minimum amount of work necessary to not get fired, and not a peppercorn more.
Daniel H. Pink
Individual people shouldn’t be fearful, because by and large our government, the federal government – people always talk; obviously, they don’t trust the feds, whatever. The federal government and local communities have done a pretty good job at keeping us safe.
Sherrod Brown
Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant.
Peter Landesman
I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful.
Rene Russo
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett
It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words of Christ to fallacies of human production.
Ellen G. White
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare
Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.
Adrienne Clarkson
I love writing novels, but I’m very fearful about writing something from absolute scratch. I kind of don’t have the time to write something from scratch. I think when my knees completely give out, and I can’t make films anymore, I would try to write novels from scratch.
Whit Stillman
Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country’s way of life; it’s only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.
Bruce Schneier
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
Denis Diderot
My mom is very practical, and she originally wanted me to have something to fall back on. She was a little fearful of my becoming an actor because she didn’t see it as a way to make a living. My dad, who was born and raised in Cuba, was really cool with it.
Mel Rodriguez
I just refuse to worry or get upset or be fearful. It doesn’t do one particle of good.
Paul Henderson
Politicians should reflect on the well-documented fact that fearful, insecure people lose their sense of tolerance and altruism.
Guy Standing
I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.
John B. Hood
Trump manipulates the fearful by promising that he will use his fraudulent deal-making prowess to protect and take care of his supporters.
Tom Steyer
It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
Kevin Kline
I’m probably one of the most fearful persons in the world, but not when it comes to getting dressed.
Nick Wooster
Know what your characters want, know what they need most, know what they fear most, and don’t be fearful of facing it, no matter how unpleasant it may be.
Mark Waid
The E.U. referendum was promised by a Conservative Prime Minister fearful of losing votes and of mass defections to UKIP.
Nigel Farage
The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.
Paulo Freire
Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.
Patrick Henry
In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity.
Henry Mayhew
I think most of us in America want our security. There’re so many people out there that are fearful and now with this realization of immigration, with the terrorists, we need to have better checks and balances in regards to who’s emigrating into our country.
Jan Brewer
If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.
Clare Balding
Doctors, dentists and nurses commonly take out malpractice insurance to pay for lawsuits. The trend has expanded to include hairdressers, accountants, vets, sports umpires and members of the clergy, all fearful of being sued for wrongful action or advice.
Gavin Esler
When you’re fearful, you stumble.
Jenna Jameson
They can become very irritated. They can become very aggressive. Not all Alzheimer’s patients are that way, but many are. My mother was very difficult. She had extreme mood changes and would become fearful.
Yasmin Aga Khan
Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.
Walter Cronkite
Most women who go public with #MeToo stories are fearful for obvious reasons. There is the pain of reliving traumatic experiences. There is the rage of not being believed.
Bari Weiss
Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.
Douglas Hurd
Parents are almost fearful of disciplining their childr

Parents are almost fearful of disciplining their children. They are scared they are going to lose the connection with them when they are teenagers or adults.
Jo Frost
Conformism is a potent statement, and as much as we do talk about individuality in fashion, there’s a sense that people are fearful of not conforming and not being part of action.
Erin O’Connor
At times of economic upheaval and hardship, history tells us that people can become fearful and resentful.
Wes Streeting
One should not evoke violence by acting fearful.
Theo Van Gogh
When I got outta school, I didn’t know what I was gonna do with my life. I knew I didn’t have much in the grades department, and so I was very fearful. A whole lot of fear.
Chris Farley
I hope to encourage younger Singaporeans not to be so fearful.
Tan Cheng Bock
My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.
Jackie Speier
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another’s fear.
Umberto Eco
My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was.
John Burnside
A fearful child cannot learn.
Goldie Hawn
I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer.
Judy Blume
One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.
Eric Schlosser
I think when you are an only child, parents are more protective and fearful because they’ve only got one of you. I was not allowed to do a lot of things that, if I’d been, say, number three, I would have.
Rosamund Pike
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
Dario Argento
If we’re honest, we all have some measure of wrong believing in our lives. If you don’t believe this, all you need to do is ask yourself, ‘Have I often felt anxious, worried, or fearful that the worst would happen to me and my loved ones?’
Joseph Prince
I would never be fearful of any character.
Idris Elba
Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful – just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
Ben Stein
And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.
Margaret Cavendish
I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
Daniel Clowes
Most people have fallen by the wayside once or twice in their lives, and because the world is so transparent now, I think they’re very fearful of running for office.
Jeremy Irons
We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.
Patricia Sun
I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.
Edward Irving
I was always fearful I would become That Guy. The guy who had regret. ‘Yeah, we won a couple of championships, but I never saw my kids grow up. Yeah, we beat Georgia a couple of times, but I ruined my marriage.’
Urban Meyer
If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you’re fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it’s very self-serving.
Susan Sarandon