115 Best Fear Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing fear quotes and sayings.
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Short Fear Sayings
“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.” —Napoleon Hill
“People living deeply have no fear of death.” —Anais Nin
“Fear is contagious. You can catch it.” —Unknown
“The fear of war is worse than war itself.” —Unknown
“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.” —Buddha
“Do what you fear most and you control fear.” —Tom Hopkins
“Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.” —Unknown
“Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.” —Unknown
“To lead is difficult when you’re a follower of fear.” —T.A. Sachs
“We must travel in the direction of our fear.” —John Berryman
“Courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to face it.” —Lt. John B. Putnam
“A hungry dog does not fear the stick.” —Unknown
“Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.” —Miguel de Cervantes
“Fear is advance panic of unexpected life.” —Terri Guillemets
“Always do what you are afraid to do.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.” —Martin Luther
“It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.” —James A. Michener
“Love is incompatible with fear.” —Unknown
“Where the fear is, happiness is not.” —Seneca
“Fear is no obstacle to death.” —Unknown
“Fear is excitement without breath.” —Robert Heller
“Fear is the mind-killer.” —Unknown
“Jealousy is the fear of comparison.” —Max Frisch
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” —Bertrand Russell
“The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.” —Unknown
“Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of it.” —Unknown
“My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.” —Tamara Mellon
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is to be understood.” —Marie Curie
“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.” —Dorothy Thompson
“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” —Babe Ruth
“Who loves fears.” —Unknown
“Courage knows what not to fear.” —Plato
“Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.” —Unknown
“Great fear is concealed under daring.” —Lucan
“Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.” —Unknown
“Where no hope is left, is left no fear.” —Milton
“Fear is a great inventor.” —Unknown
“Fear insults courage.” —Terri Guillemets
“Do not let your fears choose your destiny.” —Unknown
“It is better to know what to fear than to say ,no fear.” —Tim Fargo
“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.” —Pema Chodron
“Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.” —Gary Busey
“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.” —Percy Bysshe Shelley
“We are all of us failures–at least, the best of us are.” —James Barrie
“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.” —Bill Cosby
“You can never get rid of fear, you can only drop it.” —Yogi Bhajan
“Fear is the enemy of logic.” —Frank Sinatra
“Let them hate, so that they fear me.” —Unknown
“Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival. ” —Hannah Arendt
“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” —Babe Ruth
“People die of fright and live of confidence.” —Henry David
“If not for fear, sin would be sweet.” —Unknown
“Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.” —Steve Maraboli
“We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.” —Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The fear of death comes from limited awareness.” —Deepak Chopra
“Fear is the mother of morality.” —Nietzsche
“The greater the fear the nearer the danger.” —Unknown
Fear Sayings
“Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.” —Nelson Mandela
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” —Les Brown
“You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.” —Sammy Davis, Jr.
“If you think too much and fail to take action, fear makes its home within you.” —Unknown
“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.” —Mary Manin Morrissey
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.” —Otto von Bismarck
“The first and great commandment is: Don’t let them scare you.” —Elmer Davis
“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.” —Sun Tzu
“Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.” —William Congreve
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.” —William Allen White
“Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.” —Norman Vincent Peale
“You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so.For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.” —Dale Carnegie
“Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it, that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.” —Dale Carnegie
“Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.” —Unknown
“Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.” —Brendan Francis
“Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice.” —Unknown
“Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.” —T. D. Jakes
“Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is. ” —H. Jackson Browne
“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness. ” —Dorothy Thomas
“Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light. ” —Dorothy Thomas
“The more we try new things, the more we realize what we are capable of and the less we fear fear.” —Michael Duncan
“What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope.” —Publilius Syrus
“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.” —Ray Bradbury
“You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much.” —Betty Friedan
“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.” —Marilyn Monroe
“The things which we fear the most in life have already happend to us.” —Robin Williams
“The absence of fear is not courage; the absence of fear is mental illness.” —Po Bronson
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” —Robert Louis Stevenson
“It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.” —Francis Bacon
“I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down.” —Allen H. Neuharth
“Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn’t filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.” —Naomi Klein
“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.” —John C. Maxwell
“Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.” —Marilyn Ferguson
“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” —Coco Chanel
“Fear melts when you take action toward a goal you really want.” —Robert G. Allen
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” —Marcus Aurelius
“Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.” —Mary Catherine Bateson
“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” —Niccolò Machiavelli
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself, and, of course, the boogieman.” —Pat Paulsen
“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.” —Bertrand Russell
“A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.” —Marilyn French
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.” —Edvard Munch
Top Ten Fear Sayings
Here you will find top ten fear sayings selected by our team.
- “None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.” —Bertrand Russell
- “Always do what you are afraid to do.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.” —Napoleon Hill
- Do not let your fears choose your destiny.” —Unknown
- Fear is no obstacle to death.” —Unknown
- “If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.” —Sun Tzu
- “Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.” —Nelson Mandela
- The fear of war is worse than war itself.” —Unknown
- Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of it.” —Unknown
- “Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.” —Steve Maraboli
