Fear Quotes

199. The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

^{Oprah Winfrey}

200. Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

^{Robert Browning}

Fear Quotes 201 – 300

201. It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

^{Aung San Suu Kyi}

202. Sometimes the point isn’t to make people believe a lie – it’s to make people fear the liar.

^{Anne Applebaum}

203. I do respect people’s faith, but I don’t respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

^{Javier Bardem}

204. It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

^Epictetus

205. Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

^{Erik Erikson}

206. Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

^{Douglas Horton}

207. If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

^Confucius

208. Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

^{Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.}

209. I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to seeit with my own eyes – and that is why I am in a hurry.

^{Mohammad bin Salman}

210. I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

^{Saint Teresa of Avila}

211. Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

^{Ambrose Bierce}

212. All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

^{Edgar Allan Poe}

213. I don’t fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presentslike a holiday at the beach.

^{Mary Roach}

214. If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you’ll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

^{Sharon Salzberg}

215. Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

^{Francis of Assisi}

216. Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

^{Viktor E. Frankl}

217. It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

^Herodotus

218. No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

^{Alan Watts}

219. My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning ofwisdom.

^{William Tecumseh Sherman}

220. The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

^{Lucius Annaeus Seneca}

221. Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

^{John Steinbeck}

222. The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

^{Sylvia Browne}

223. We must travel in the direction of our fear.

^{John Berryman}

224. Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

^{Edward Albert}

225. When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

^{Henry David Thoreau}

226. What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

^{Isabel Allende}

227. The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

^Voltaire

228. The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.

^{Stokely Carmichael}

229. ‘No fear’ is a mindset that I stand for. It’s the reason why I’ve got to where I am today.

^Skepta

230. Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

^{Brene Brown}

231. I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.

^{Hulk Hogan}

232. FOMO (fear of missing out) is the enemy of valuing your own time.

^{Andrew Yang}

233. Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

^{Coretta Scott King}

234. Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

^{Leonardo da Vinci}

235. Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

^Socrates

236. Fear of failure, it’s the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.

^{Jerry West}

237. The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you’ll only achieve small things.

^{T. Harv Eker}

238. Those who own much have much to fear.

^{Rabindranath Tagore}

239. Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

^{Arnold H. Glasow}

240. Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.

^{David Joseph Schwartz}

241. Scalded cats fear even cold water.

^{Thomas Fuller}

242. Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

^{Phil Crosby}

243. Realists do not fear the results of their study.

^{Fyodor Dostoevsky}

244. How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

^{Florence Nightingale}

245. Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

^{Louis E. Boone}

246. If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

^{John Paul Jones}

247. I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

^{Nadia Comaneci}