Fear Quotes and Sayings

Fear Quotes

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.  ~Mary Manin Morrissey

Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood.  ~Marie Curie

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.  ~Bill Cosby

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.  ~Usman B. Asif

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.  ~Henry S. Haskins

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable.  What he wants above everything else is safety.  ~Henry Louis Mencken

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.  ~George S. Patton

Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.  ~Brendan Francis

There is much in the world to make us afraid.  There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.  ~Frederick W. Cropp

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.  ~Andre Gide

Fear is faith that it won't work out.  ~Sister Mary Tricky

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.  ~Arnold Glasow

Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.  ~Henry H. Tweedy

Fear is the highest fence.  ~Dudley Nichols

Obstacles are like wild animals.  They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.  If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.  ~Orison Swett Marden

Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.  ~James Hastings

To fear is one thing.  To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.  ~Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved 

Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.  ~Ruth Gendler

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.  ~Shirley Maclaine

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.  ~Bertrand Russell

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.  ~Brendan Francis

Fear cannot take what you do not give it.  ~Christopher Coan

Fear is just your feelings asking for a hug.  ~Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and Michael Pennie, My Name is Earl, "South of the Border Part Uno/Dos," original airdate 7 December 2006, spoken by the character Joy Turner

 

   

 

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge. ~A.H. Boyd

Those who fear life are already three parts dead.  ~Bertrand Russell

Fear makes us feel our humanity.  ~Benjamin Disraeli

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.  ~Joseph Campbell

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.  ~George Matthew Adams

There are times when fear is good.  It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.  ~Aeschylus

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.  ~Samuel Butler

Fear is the cheapest room in the house.  I would like to see you living in better conditions.  ~Hāfez

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.  ~German Proverb

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost. ~Lloyd Douglas

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man. ~Seneca, "On Tranquility of Mind," translated by Moses Hadas

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. ~Rosa Parks

A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope.  ~Arab Proverb

Don't fear, just live right.  ~Neal A. Maxwell

You are the one giving fear a leg to stand on. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? ~Maurice Freehill

When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon

But small, appear most long and terrible;

So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,

Our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds,

Owls, Ravens, Crickets seem the watch of death,

Nature's worst Vermine scare her God-like Sons.

Ecchoes the very leavings of a Voice,

Grow babling Ghosts, and call us to our Graves:

Each Mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus,

While we fantastick Dreamers heave and puff,

And sweat with an Imagination's weight...

~John Dryden, Oedipus

Listen to the little voice of doubt only if it has something insightful or smart to say, not if it's just spouting fear. ~Terri Guillemets

Those that walk with fear will always be too busy hiding. ~Mike Dolan, www.hawaiianlife.com

Fear:  False Evidence Appearing Real.  ~Author Unknown

Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind.  ~Sophie Tunnell

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.  ~Katharine Butler Hathaway

He who fears something gives it power over him.  ~Moorish Proverb

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.  ~Author Unknown

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.  ~French Proverb

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.  ~Mark Twain

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.  ~Donald Dowes

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1833

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.  ~Betty Bender

To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear.  ~T.A. Sachs

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change.... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says:  turn back.  ~Erica Jong

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.  ~Lady Bird Johnson