Fear Quotes, Quotations, Proverbs and Sayings - Page 4



Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.
Virgil

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
Francis Bacon

Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death
James F. Bymes

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

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips

Fear is created not by the world around us, but in the mind, by what we think is going to happen.
Elizabeth Gawain

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

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
Neil Armstrong

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
Cicero

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.
Anonymous

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

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Nancy Astor

Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid.
Ron Meyer

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
Albert Einstein

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I’ll show you a perennial loser.
O. J. Simpson

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
Katherine Paterson

There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Thomas Jefferson

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Frances Moore Lappe

Fear is faith that it won’t work out.
Anonymous

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.
Brenda Ueland

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Francis Quarles

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Corra Harris

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.
William Shakespeare

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

Fear melts when you take action towards a goal you really want.
Robert G Allen

Fear is like fire. If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled, it will rise up and destroy you. Men’s actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.
John F. Milburn

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