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If you are looking for an incredible selection of fear quotes you’re in the right place.
Fear is an unpleasant feeling that is caused by negative emotions, normally by pain, threat or danger.
Everyone is fearful of something. However, we must learn to overcome our fears if we want to succeed.
This collection of quotes about fear will help you to become braver when faced with fear.
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Top 10 Fear Quotes
Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’.
Dalai Lama
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
Fear is excitement without breath.
Robert Heller
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Swami Vivekananda
There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational, or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t.
Lemony Snicket
For life to be really fun, what you fear should line up with what you desire.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Without fear, there cannot be courage.
Christopher Paolini
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
Aristotle
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu
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
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Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. Cyril Connolly
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears. Rudyard Kipling
Now’s not the time for fear. That comes later. Bane (Batman)
Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small. Ruth Gendler
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W. Clement Stone
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. Christian Nestell Bovee
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. Bertrand Russell
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. Miguel de Cervantes
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear. Oprah Winfrey
Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear. Idowu Koyenikan
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power. John Steinbeck
I fear not the man who has practiced ,1000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick, 1000 times.
Bruce Lee
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. Marcus Aurelius
If you want to cure the world, don’t emanate fear, emanate love. Ram Dass
Best way to deal with fear is to confront it. Pittacus Lore
What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of the next thing you need to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being scared is part of being alive. Accept it. Walk through it. Robin Sharma
Fear is temporary. Regret is forever. Unknown
If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage? Veronica Rossi
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.
Oscar Wilde
Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. Fernando Flores
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn. Seneca
Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. Dante Alighieri
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle
Fear is the enemy of logic. Frank Sinatra
Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. Pema Chödrön
Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear. Roy T. Bennett
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney
Fear is a friend of exceptional people. Cus D’Amato
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Mark Twain
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. John Cheever
Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.
Donald Miller
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. Jiddu Krishnamurti
A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths. Steven Wright
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear. Martin Luther King Jr
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett
Fear can’t hurt you. When it washes over you, give it no power. It’s a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you. Maureen Johnson
The man who fears losing has already lost. George R.R. Martin
When we’re afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators’ repression. Marjane Satrapi
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson
There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it. George R.R. Martin
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. Michel de Montaigne
Do what you fear and fear disappears. David Joseph Schwartz
Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.
Hecato
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. Benjamin Franklin
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. John F. Kennedy
Overcoming Fear Quotes
Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed. C. JoyBell C.
Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up.
Veronica Roth
Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. Fear makes you always, always hold something back. Philip K. Dick
And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear. Paulo Coelho
Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do. Henry Ford
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind. Napoleon Hill
We suffer more in imagination than in reality. Seneca
Fear is the mindkiller.
Frank Herbert
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. Rosa Parks
Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me. Isabel Allende
Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live. Robert Greene
Fools reject reality and expect things to be different. The wise accept reality and expect the unexpected.
Maxime Lagacé
Fear is useless. Either something bad happens, or it doesn’t. If it doesn’t, you’ve wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you’ve wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons. Sarah Rees Brennan
Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return. Leigh Bardugo
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
Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn’t really matter.
D. L. Moody
If I had just a little bit of wisdom I should walk the great path and fear only straying from it. Lao Tzu
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell
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
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
Aeschylus
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. H. P. Lovecraft
Facing Fear Quotes
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Without darkness nothing comes to birth, as without light nothing flowers.
May Sarton
Your mind is small, but your heart is big. Your mind is afraid but your heart is full of love. Maxime Lagacé
Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it. C. JoyBell C.
Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there. Chuck Palahniuk
You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
Michelle Obama
Your fear is percent dependent on you for its survival. Steve Maraboli
Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not? Lemony Snicket
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire. Dan Brown
There can be no initiative if one has fear, and fear compels us to cling to tradition, gurus, etc.
Bruce Lee
Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done. That’s courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward. Piers Anthony
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind – compassion opens it. Dalai Lama
Don’t be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly. William Shakespeare
I say I am stronger than fear. Malala Yousafzai
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.
Thomas Jefferson
The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better. Stephen King
Fear cuts deeper than swords. George R.R. Martin
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. Babe Ruth
Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves.
Cheryl Strayed
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. Hunter S. Thompson
Limits, like fear, is often an illusion. Michael Jordan
Your mission: Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear. Karen Salmansohn
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
Chanakya
I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. John Keats
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. Julius Caesar
When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears. Anthony Robbins
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of people walking on it.
Robert F. Kennedy
When you teach them, teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you. Unknown.
To Sum Up
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