Fear Quotes

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.

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.