Quotes about Fear

"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles."

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

"Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones."

"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."

"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."

"Fear is excitement without breath."

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

"Always do what you are afraid to do."

"I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway."

"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."

"Humble souls are fearful of their own strength."

"Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here."

"Find out what you're afraid of and go live there."

"Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of."

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."

"We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond."

"To him who is in fear everything rustles."

"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."

"True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful."

"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."

"Never be afraid to sit a while and think."

"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."

"I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve."

"Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace."

"We are afraid of the enormity of the possible."

"Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself."

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

"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."

"There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them."