Quotes about Fear

“True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.”

“I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.”

“He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.”

“I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.”

“Do what you fear and fear disappears.”

“In whosever presence you find peace of mind, devoid of fear, only that person can be your guru.”

“The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.”

“I guess the worst moment I ever had in business was the fear that Southwest Airlines wouldn't get off the ground.”

“I always say that my biggest fear in a relationship is cheating, and people giving up.”

“We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.”

“You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.”

“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.'”

“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.”

“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”

“Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.”

“I am totally fearless! Well, of course, I'm not totally fearless. I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.”

“If we're not careful, we become that which we most fear.”

“There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.”

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

“Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.”

“Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.”