Fear Quotes, Quotations, Proverbs and Sayings

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.
Rosa Parks

Being frightened is an experience you can’t buy.
Anthony Price

In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.
Statius

In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.
Chin Ning Chu

Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
Antoine de St. Exupery

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas Hobbes

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to injure one who makes himself feared, for their love is held by a chain of obligation which, because of men’s wickedness, is broken on every occasion for the sake of selfish profit; but their fear is secured by a dread of punishment.
Niccolo Machiavelli

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.
Bonaro W. Overstreet

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
Tobias G. Smollett

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott

Everything I’ve ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
Chet Atkins

Even in the darkest phase be it thick or thin, always someone marches brave here beneath my skin.
K.D. Lang

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves…We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here–with its gift of energy and heightened awareness–so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
Peter McWilliams

Fear/Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
Swedish proverb

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
Thomas Jefferson

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Marianne Williamson

Without darkness
Nothing comes to birth,
As without light
Nothing flowers.
May Sarton

Where fear is, happiness is not.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca

He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all.
James Graham

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

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.
Joss Whedon

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Anne Frank

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

I have almost forgot the taste of fears.
The time has been my senses would have cool’d
To hear a night shriek, and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in’t. I have supp’d full with horrors;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
Cannot once start me.
Will - Macbeth

All fear is bondage.
Anonymous

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf

There is no devil but fear.
Elbert Hubbard