Top 1000 Fear Quotes & Sayings

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

You can like or dislike me. You are entitled to form an opinion about me, and I don't fear being judged.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear.

Greed is normally balanced by fear.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Action conquers fear.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

I don't fear no man, period.

Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

I believe that truth is one of the most powerful tools we possess against victimization, exploitation, and fear.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

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.

You don't have to read the Quran to love me... love the actions, love the things that I do. Look at those, and that will help people get beyond whatever fear or stereotypical thing that they might be thinking about.

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.

The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.

Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people - 'fear' for me stands for 'false evidence appearing real.' We create fantasy, and in certain ways that's wonderful because it allows people to escape. But it can suck people into wanting to achieve something that isn't real.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

Fear is always there; it's a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it.

I still get thrilled by the energy that is a live performance, the fear and the panic and the electricity that happens on the night. I think jolting myself every once in a while with that fear is a good thing for me.

Everyone's frightened. It's how you deal with that fear. It's very, very powerful. And what you've got to do is get it as a tailwind instead of a headwind. And that's a little bit of a judo trick in your mind. And once you learn that, fear starts to excite you. Because you know that you are going to enter into something and try it and risk.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.

You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Those who own much have much to fear.

If frightening sensations are not given the time and attention they need to move through the body and resolve or dissolve, the individual will continue to be gripped by fear.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original - to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

I fear no motion of no confidence or impeachment, for they are the lawful mechanisms for the people of this beautiful country to remove their president.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

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

It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.