Fear Quotes

248. Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

^{Lionel Richie}

249. Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

^{Graham Greene}

250. Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

^{Shirley MacLaine}

251. Don’t fear change – embrace it.

^{Anthony J. D’Angelo}

252. I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.

^{Johnny Depp}

253. There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, nomore than without sense.

^{Thomas Hobbes}

254. Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

^{Mel Brooks}

255. Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.

^{Eugene O’Neill}

256. Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

^Plutarch

257. There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

^{Matthew McConaughey}

258. Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

^{George Washington Carver}

259. Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

^{Virgil Thomson}

260. Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

^{Jonah Goldberg}

261. Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

^{Zora Neale Hurston}

262. Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.

^{Joseph Conrad}

263. The key to change… is to let go of fear.

^{Rosanne Cash}

264. Fear of failure is caused by lack of self-esteem and confidence. Dealing with fear is the key to super success.

^{Dan Pena}

265. Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

^{Lao Tzu}

266. As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

^{Tracee Ellis Ross}

267. It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

^Epicurus

268. We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

^{Alanis Morissette}

269. I have no fear of losing my life – if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

^{Steve Irwin}

270. I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

^{Elon Musk}

271. Fear is the passion of slaves.

^{Patrick Henry}

272. I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

^Saadi

273. I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

^{T. S. Eliot}

274. Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

^{Charles Frohman}

275. If we’re not careful, we become that which we most fear.

^{Dean Ornish}

276. The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

^{William Jennings Bryan}

277. Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.

^{Pavel Durov}

278. I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

^{J. K. Rowling}

279. When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

^{Alfred Eisenstaedt}

280. People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

^{Richard M. Nixon}

281. It’s the fear of failure that drives all of us at Red Bull.

^{Christian Horner}

282. Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.

^{James O’Shaughnessy}

283. Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.

^{Rita Levi-Montalcini}

284. I’ve gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it’s almost like a high. You don’t want it to stop. You don’t want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

^{Dr. Dre}

285. Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

^{Madame de Stael}

286. There’s no fear when you’re having fun.

^{Will Thomas}

287. Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.

^{Jimmy Iovine}

288. If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.

^{Ramana Maharshi}

289. I have no fear of death. More important, I don’t fear life.

^{Steven Seagal}

290. Failure isn’t an option. I’ve erased the word ‘fear’ from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can’t fail.

^{Alicia Keys}

291. Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

^{George Sewell}

292. Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family.

^{Eric Clapton}

293. With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

^{Federico Garcia Lorca}

294. Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

^{Marian Anderson}

295. When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death – that is heroism.

^{Robert Green Ingersoll}

296. Let them hate so long as they fear.

^{Lucius Accius}

297. No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

^{Christopher Columbus}

298. Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

^{Grace Paley}