Fear Quotes

94. We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

^{Jim Morrison}

95. He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

^{Publilius Syrus}

96. Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

^{Charles Kennedy}

97. The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

^Stendhal

98. Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

^Ovid

99. One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you’re a star you’re dead already. You’re embalmed.

^{Dustin Hoffman}

100. To fight fear, act. To increase fear – wait, put off postpone.

^{David Joseph Schwartz}

Fear Quotes 101 – 200

101. I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was tryingto bite the other.

^{Daniel Clowes}

102. We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

^{Eric Hoffer}

103. I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

^{Pierre Beaumarchais}

104. So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

^{Friedrich Durrenmatt}

105. By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

^{Samuel Daniel}

106. The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

^{Thomas Carlyle}

107. Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

^{Robert Benchley}

108. A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

^{Nadine Gordimer}

109. When you’re fearful, you stumble.

^{Jenna Jameson}

110. No one should have to live in fear.

^{Jeff Fortenberry}

111. When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

^{Hale White}

112. I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

^{Etty Hillesum}

113. What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

^{Sonia Johnson}

114. Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

^{Marie Curie}

115. I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

^{Bruce Lee}

116. Courage is knowing what not to fear.

^Plato

117. Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

^{Henry Van Dyke}

118. It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

^{Marcus Aurelius}

119. We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

^{Stewart Udall}

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

^{Mark Twain}

121. We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

^{Martin Luther King, Jr.}

122. 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}

123. A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

^{Baz Luhrmann}

124. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

^{Dale Carnegie}

125. America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

^{Harry S Truman}

126. Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

^{James Thurber}

127. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

^{Albert Einstein}

128. I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

^{Nikos Kazantzakis}

129. In whosever presence you find peace of mind, devoid of fear, only that person can be your guru.

^Ilaiyaraaja

130. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’

^{Eleanor Roosevelt}

131. I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

^{Isoroku Yamamoto}

132. Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

^{Mahatma Gandhi}

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

^{John F. Kennedy}

134. The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

^{Swami Vivekananda}

135. March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

^{Khalil Gibran}

136. Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

^{George S. Patton}

137. Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don’t go out on the branch, you’re never going to get the best fruit.

^{Sarah Parish}

138. Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t likethem.

^{Stacy London}

139. Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

^{Babe Ruth}

140. A lot of people would say ‘sexy’ is about the body. But to me, ‘sexy’ is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.

^{Allegra Versace}

141. This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

^{Dwight D. Eisenhower}

142. As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

^{Marianne Williamson}

143. Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

^{Lord Byron}

144. Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

^{Bear Grylls}

145. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

^{Bertrand Russell}