Top 1000 Fear Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
I've had knee trouble, and I worry about my shoulder, but I think my weakest link is my head. A helmet can only do so much, and I have seen the effects of brain injuries. That is a big fear. I think everyone's weakest link is their brain because it's their most fragile link.
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
Bravery is not the absence of fear, it is overcoming it.
Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Action can cure fear and hesitation and doubt.
Secrets of the past! Who does not wish to keep the past locked in a cage like a ferocious beast? The rich are sleepless for fear of thieves. The respectable have to guard their reputations in the same way.
Fear is excitement without breath.
When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
In the ring, I never really knew fear.
Let them hate so long as they fear.
Let us not act out of fear and misunderstanding, but out of the values of inclusion, diversity, and regard for all that make our country great.
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.
I think I'm like most people - we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don't deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it's very hard not to be fearless.
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.
An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.
We in the U.A.E. have no such word as 'impossible'; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a word is used by the lazy and the weak, who fear challenges and progress.
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Fear, to me, is a guiding thing more than anything.
Fear doesn't exist in football, especially for Real Madrid.
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.
The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.
The thing I fear most is fear.
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.
Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes - and that is why I am in a hurry.
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.
Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.
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.'
Ignorance breeds fear.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
God's grace is at its best in weakness, so we need never fear our weakness. In fact, these weaknesses will determine in what way we shall glorify God for all eternity.
Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without fear, love their neighbor even when they are cursed by him, and live without regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow.
I like to do something I fear.
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.
In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?
I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.
