Quotations about Fear

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.  ~Mary Manin Morrissey


Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood.  ~Marie Curie


Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.  ~Bill Cosby


Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.  ~Usman B. Asif


Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson


Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.  ~Henry S. Haskins


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.  ~Henry Louis Mencken


There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.  ~George S. Patton


Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.  ~Brendan Francis


There is much in the world to make us afraid.  There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.  ~Frederick W. Cropp


There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.  ~Andre Gide


Fear is faith that it won't work out.  ~Sister Mary Tricky


Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.  ~Arnold Glasow


Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.  ~Henry H. Tweedy


Fear is the highest fence.  ~Dudley Nichols


Obstacles are like wild animals.  They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.  If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.  ~Orison Swett Marden


Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.  ~James Hastings


To fear is one thing.  To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.  ~Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved


Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.  ~Ruth Gendler


Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.  ~Shirley Maclaine


To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.  ~Bertrand Russell


Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.  ~Brendan Francis


Fear cannot take what you do not give it.  ~Christopher Coan


Fear is just your feelings asking for a hug.  ~Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and Michael Pennie, My Name is Earl, "South of the Border Part Uno/Dos," original airdate 7 December 2006, spoken by the character Joy Turner


He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Those who fear life are already three parts dead.  ~Bertrand Russell


Fear makes us feel our humanity.  ~Benjamin Disraeli


The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.  ~Joseph Campbell


A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.  ~George Matthew Adams


There are times when fear is good.  It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.  ~Aeschylus


Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.  ~Samuel Butler


Fear is the cheapest room in the house.  I would like to see you living in better conditions.  ~Hāfez


Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.  ~German Proverb


If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost.  ~Lloyd Douglas


I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.  ~Rosa Parks


A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope.  ~Arab Proverb


Don't fear, just live right.  ~Neal A. Maxwell


You are the one giving fear a leg to stand on. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com


Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? ~Maurice Freehill


Listen to the little voice of doubt only if it has something insightful or smart to say, not if it's just spouting fear. ~Terri Guillemets


Those that walk with fear will always be too busy hiding. ~Mike Dolan, www.hawaiianlife.com


Fear:  False Evidence Appearing Real.  ~Author Unknown


Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind.  ~Sophie Tunnell


I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.  ~Katharine Butler Hathaway


He who fears something gives it power over him.  ~Moorish Proverb


Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.  ~Author Unknown


He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.  ~French Proverb


There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.  ~Mark Twain


Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.  ~Donald Dowes


The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1833


Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.  ~Betty Bender


To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear.  ~T.A. Sachs


I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change.... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says:  turn back.  ~Erica Jong


The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.  ~Lady Bird Johnson