Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Fear
Quotations & Citations:
I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
~ Woody Allen
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
~ Mary Manin Morrissey
Do one thing every day that scares you.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
~ Marie Curie
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
~ Bill Cosby
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
~ John Lennon
Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.
~ Usman B. Asif
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Bran thought about it. Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?
‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.
~ George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up
~ Veronica Roth, Divergent
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
~ George S. Patton
Fear cuts deeper than swords,
~ George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
~ Andre Gide
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
~ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
~ Arnold Glasow
Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.
~ C. JoyBell C.
Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.
~ Henry H. Tweedy
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
~ Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
something else is more important than fear.
~ Ambrose Redmoon
It is better to know what to fear than to say “no fear.”
~ Tim Fargo
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Fear is the highest fence.
~ Dudley Nichols
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.
~ James Hastings
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
~ Jim Morrison
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
~ Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
~ Salvador Dalí
Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.
~ Ruth Gendler
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
~ Plato
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
~ Shirley Maclaine
Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.
~ Emma Donoghue, Room
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Bertrand Russell
Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
~ Brendan Francis
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
~ Nelson Mandela
Fear cannot take what you do not give it.
~ Christopher Coan
Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.
~ Jarod Kintz
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
~ Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
~ C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
~ Joseph Campbell
Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
~ Dante Alighieri, Inferno
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
~ Aeschylus
I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.
~ Taylor Swift
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
~ Samuel Butler
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
~ Hāfez
I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
~ Andrew Solomon
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
~ German Proverb
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost.
~ Lloyd Douglas
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin
A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.
~ Seneca
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
~ James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.
~ Rosa Parks
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address
A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope.
~ Arab Proverb
How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.
~ Paulo Coelho, Brida
Don’t fear, just live right.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?
~ Maurice Freehill
Without fear there cannot be courage.
~ Christopher Paolini
Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind.
~ Sophie Tunnell
When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.
~ Stephen Richards
He who fears something gives it power over him.
~ Moorish Proverb
That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.
~ John Green, Looking for Alaska
He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.
~ French Proverb
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
~ Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
~ Mark Twain
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
~ Aristotle
Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.
~ Donald Dowes
There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t.
~ Lemony Snicket
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laughter is poison to fear.
~ George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
To lead is difficult when you’re a follower of fear.
~ T.A. Sachs
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
~ Francis Chan