Quotes about Fear

“Fear is the mother of foresight.”

“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.”

“There is nothing more dangerous for a population than self-censorship by fear.”

“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.”

“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.”

“Fear the vulture, and the vulture will come. Fear nothing, and you are the vulture.”

“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.”

“We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.”

“Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.”

“Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.”

“My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.”

“We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.”

“Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.”

“The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.”

“I don't fear nobody, dawg.”

“Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.”

“One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.”

“It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.”

“To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.”

“What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing.”

“The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!”