Difference Between Fear and Respect

Fear and respect are two different emotion of human. Fear means to be afraid of someone while respect is to admire someone. So it is clear that these two words are two different feeling that one can feel for people. We can easily differentiate these two emotions. When we fear we are threatened, we tend to have negative feeling for that person and we try to avoid that person as much as possible. But when we respect someone we love to be around that person. We are not afraid to share our view with that person. We are free to be ourselves when we are around the person we respect.

Respect is something that we earn but fear is forced upon us. The feeling of respect may be mutual but fear can never be mutual between two people. Respect is something that can be earned which develops our personality and broadens the knowledge level leading us to the glory. On the other hand, Fear is something that is created in us which depends on how we react or handle things. It is something we are afraid of, which never boosts up the feeling to know about something even if it is good.

We fear those who are capable of harming us. Like we are afraid of the terrorist because we fear that we will be harmed by them. We respect the great people like mother Teresa because of her good deeds and are always inspired to be like her. We evaluate and consider the ideas, values, feelings, thoughts of the person we respect. But we cannot stand the only feeling of the person we fear. The feeling of respect is something that can be earned with the calm and well-mannered behavior and fear can be regarded as the terrific feeling inside the person which can be exploited everywhere at any place.

Respect is something that we learn to earn or give to those who deserve it. It involves regard for moral worth. Respect is not earned by making people fear us but it is earned by showing compassion. Sometimes people may respect someone in fear. But that respect does not involve real feelings or compassion. This respect is temporary and continues as long as the fear lasts.  Lord Buddha was respected by all because of his compassion not because anyone was frightened of him. He showed his love to even his critics and his haters.

Fear and Respect are very similar feelings but these cause a very different impacts upon people as fear leads to destruction as respect always helps in building the personality of the person. Respect is always associated with attraction as the respect to someone/something attracts us to be more curious and understand its importance and values. Fear is a pure emotion as it is simply the recognition that someone or something has the potential to harm you, and nothing more. It does not involve the complex mix of attraction and avoidance that respect does. It simply makes people want to get away from the object of fear as soon as possible.

Fear and Respect are different as well as similar to each other. Hence they are always mistaken for each other. Fear is something that we feel since we were born. Respect is something we earn. 

Differences between Confidence and Arrogance

It is very common when people people address someone as arrogant or confident. People often misinterpret arrogance with confidence. There is a very distinct border between these nouns which people often overlook and consider a confident person arrogant. 

Confidence and arrogance are two completely different personality trait of a person. Confidence is the belief within oneself or other people which we develop only when we have a complete knowledge or when we have a full trust on others knowledge. But arrogance doesn't need knowledge. It is a pride that one has for herself/himself and when one overlooks other people’s skill or knowledge and think highly about themselves.

Confidence is something which we feel about us but arrogance is something that others may feel about us. For instance we have confidence even when we are alone doing our work but we are not arrogant until we have someone else around us. So, our arrogance is felt by others whereas our confidence is felt by ourselves.

As mentioned earlier there is a distinct border between confidence and arrogance which is ego. A confident person will not have an ego problem but an arrogant person will. He/she will exaggerate their skills and ability and are always ready to show off. 

Arrogance and confidence can be distinguished by the behavior of a person. Confident person are inspiring and makes us feel good about them but arrogant person are uninspiring and make us develop a negative feeling about them. Arrogance can be considered as a behavior of a person when they feel they are more important than other people, so they are rude or do not consider others. Confidence is a belief on own ability to do things successfully and the trust in others too. Arrogance shows behaving in a proud way which is not found in confidence. Arrogant character reflects upon no any thoughts for others but only think about themselves. But confident character has a very bright view upon others and can analyze and interpret others ideas in a positive way.

So, from overall description it is clear that these two emotions of human beings are way different from each other. These emotion lead the direction in our life. Confidence leads to the understanding of the certain areas of self –strength, accepting the weakness or faults with grace and implementing effective ways to correct them whereas arrogance leads to the downfall of one’s personality in the eyes of other people as well as in life as arrogant people cannot accept their mistakes and go on praising about themselves however wrong they may be.