Fear Quotes
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Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.
Lao Tzu
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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
Sophocles
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Ignorance breeds fear.
Mike Wilson
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Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
Thomas Aquinas
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To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be.
Brian Tracy
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In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance.
Ellie Krieger
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I'm not afraid of doing anything. I have no fear. It's made me pretty confident in that I can have a plane flown over my head or I can go head-to-head with an alligator or with a python, and it's all okay and it's so fun.
Ana Mulvoy-Ten
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The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.
Haruki Murakami
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.
Epictetus
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Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.
Erwin McManus
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One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.
Kevin Powers
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O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple Hell?
William Shakespeare
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Now I know people in a different way. It’s not based on memorizing them out of fear. When you’re not afraid of being hurt, you can know people differently.
Bessel van der Kolk
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I crumple on my bed. For a second, i believed that what i wanted more than anything in the world had come true. For a second, i believed that my dad was back. but he isn't. He's gone again. he's really truly gone and i know it. i know i'll never see him again no matter how much i want to. The candle in me has blown out and i'm afraid, really, really afraid, because my biggest fear is true. i have to live my life without my dad, my running partner, the guy who taught me amnesty and sang john lennon songs really off key.
Carrie Jones
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Our friends, neighbors, and their families have been forced to live in the shadows out of fear of being torn from their families and deported from what is, for many of them, the only country they have ever known.
Marc Veasey
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
Rudyard Kipling
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If people had no fear, you'd hardly need to have to teach them. It's the fear that screws everything up.
Keith Johnstone
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Fear is finding fault with the future.
Ajahn Brahm
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Fear is choosing the safe course...
George Bernard Shaw
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An horrid stillness first invades the ear,And in that silence we the tempest fear.
John Dryden
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Fear was a wonderful propellant, and such a strong exponent of survival, even at the cost of others. Civility, it seemed, was the first to perish in a disaster.
Andrew Barrett
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Love is giving of yourself in a way that is free of fear.
Alicia Keys
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Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.
Arthur Gordon Webster