Fear Quotes

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure. These things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us? How dare we let it into our decision making; into our livelihoods; into our relationships? It's funny isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up, in costume and celebrate fear.

When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead.

The worst of all fears is the fear of living.

Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.

Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around you in awareness.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

If you're afraid to ask the question, it's probably because you already know the answer.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.