Fear Quotes, Quotations, Proverbs and Sayings


Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Max Ehrmann

A man who is afraid will do anything.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds … it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors.
James F. Bell

Fear, if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release.
John M. Wilson

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
Euripides

Fear is the most devastating of all human emotions. Man has no trouble like the paralyzing effects of fear.
Paul Parker

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
William Faulkner

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat?
Joseph Conrad

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T. S. Eliot

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark.
Francis Bacon

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
General George S. Patton

Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Susan Jeffers

Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.
Vauvenargues

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer

A man who has been in danger,
When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
And sometimes he forgets his promises.
Euripides

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby.
Ruth E. Renkel

Often fear of one evil leads us into a worse.
NIcholas Boileau Despresaux

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he’s never been any place or done anything.
Louis L’Amour

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
John F. Kennedy

There seemed to be endless obstacles-it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
Joanna Field

In grief we know the worst of what we feel, But who can tell the end of what we fear?
Hannah More

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