Steve Maraboli

Quotes About Fear

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

 

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

 

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

 

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

 

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 is the foundation of most governments.

 

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.

 

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God

 

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

 

Do one thing every day that scares you, Eleanor Roosevelt

 

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

 

If you want to conquer fear don't sit home and think about it go out and get busy

 

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