Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Everybody’s afraid of something.

Fear is the fatal killer of desire.

Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you?

What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise.

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Fear does not have to be real to be powerful.

It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world.

I'm afraid of everything. I'm not a naturally courageous person.

Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.

Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

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

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.

The strongest passion is fear.

Most of the things I do are inspired by things that frightened me when I was young.

We all have fears! Don't lie! We all have fears.

The fear of losing motivates me, and that's it.