Top 96 Fear Quotes

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Fear is something that can completely take over your life. However, you shouldn’t allow it. With that in mind, check out the top 96 fear quotes.

#96 – 90. Fear Quotes

96. Without fear there cannot be courage.  – Christopher Paolini

95. It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it’s about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway. – Gillian Anderson

94. They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn. – Seneca

93. If you want to cure the world, don’t emanate fear – emanate love. – Ram Dass

92. It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. – Francis Bacon

91. You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, ‘I love you and nothing will destroy you and you’re not going to fall.’ – Ricky Martin

90. When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

#89 – 80. Fear Quotes

89. Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

88. 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

87. Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears. – Rudyard Kipling

86. To overcome fear, here’s all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway. – Peter McWilliams

85. We suffer more in imagination than in reality. – Seneca

84. Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. – Elizabeth I

83. Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn’t like jam if it didn’t, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn’t like truth if it wasn’t sticky, if, from time to time, it didn’t ooze blood. – Jean Baudrillard

82. Where no hope is left, is left no fear. – Milton

81. Tell us your phobias, and we will tell you what you are afraid of. – Robert Benchley

80. An ugly sight, a man who is afraid. – Jean Anouilh

#79 – 70. Fear Quotes

79. Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. – Arnold Glasow

78. Laughter is poison to fear. – George R.R. Martin

77. A scalded cat dreads cold water. – Proverb

76. 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

75. 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

74. Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

72. Everything you want is on the other side of fear. – Jack Canfield

71. Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind. – Dale Carnegie

70. Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out. – Karl Augustus Menninger

#69 – 60. Fear Quotes

69. It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. – Marcus Aurelius

68. For life to be really fun, what you fear should line up with what you desire. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

67. 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

66. 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

65. A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. – Michel de Montaigne

64. He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. –  Aristotle

63. No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke

62. Fear the man who fears you. – Proverb

61. Fear is met and destroyed with courage. – James F. Bell

60. Action cures fear, inaction creates terror. – Douglas Horton

#59 – 50. Fear Quotes

59. You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least. – Jane Austen

58. Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them. – Epictetus

57. Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it. – Bear Grylls

56. What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of the next thing you need to do. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

55. That fear may reach all, punish but few. – Proverb

54. Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it. – Arthur Ashe

53. Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear. – Isa Upanishad, Hindu Scripture

52. I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. – William Allen White

51. Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. – James Stephens

50. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. – Helen Keller

#49 – 40. Fear Quotes

49. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices. – Henry Ward Beecher

48. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. – Shannon L. Alder

47. Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. – Dale Carnegie

46. If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. – Marcus Aurelius

45. Fear is the thief of dreams. – Brian Krans

44. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

43. People living deeply have no fear of death. – Anais Nin

42. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

41. The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. – Swami Vivekananda

40. Ignorance is the parent of fear. – Herman Melville

#39 – 30. Fear Quotes

39. Fear makes us feel our humanity. – Benjamin Disraeli

38. Cease to hope and you will cease to fear. – Hecato

37. People always make the wolf more formidable than he is. – Proverb

36. There can be no initiative if one has fear, and fear compels us to cling to tradition, gurus, etc. – Bruce Lee

35. Fear is only as deep as the mind allows. – Japanese Proverb

34. Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. – Mary Catherine Bateson

33. 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

32. What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears. – Alice Walker

31. Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death. – James F. Byrnes

30. I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. – John Keats

#29 – 20. Fear Quotes

29. 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

28. Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. – Usman B. Asif

27. But fear doesn’t need doors and windows. It works from the inside. – Andrew Clements

26. Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. – Marian Anderson

25. 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

24. We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. – Seneca

23. Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. – Babe Ruth

22. Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them… and they flew. – Guillaume Apollinaire

21. Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. – Mahatma Gandhi

20. Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don’t go out on the branch, you’re never going to get the best fruit. – Sarah Parish

#19 – 10. Fear Quotes

19. People are only mean when they’re threatened, and that’s what our culture does. That’s what our economy does. – Mitch Albom

18. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. – Francis Bacon

17. As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger. – Akhenaton

16. 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

15. He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. – Proverb

14. The fears we don’t face becomes our limits. – Robin Sharma

13. Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn’t really matter. – D. L. Moody

12. Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. – Swedish Proverb

11. Fears are nothing more than a state of mind. – Napoleon Hill

10. Great fear is concealed under daring. – Lucan

#9 – 1. Fear Quotes

9. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. – Oscar Wilde

8. Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. – William Congreve

7. Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God. – Proverb

6. You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. – Eric Hoffer

5. 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

4. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. – Rumi

3. Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind – compassion opens it. – Dalai Lama

2. Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it’s contagious. – Jimmy Stewart

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

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