Fear Quotes, Quotations, Proverbs and Sayings

A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley

The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.
Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.
Bill W.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
George Carlin

Fear dances with courage.
Ever Garrison

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Dale Carnegie

We’re frightened of what makes us different.
Anne Rice

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One hates what one fears.
Marylin Manson

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why are we scared to die? Do any of us remember being scared when we were born?
Trevor Kay

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul Richter

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
Dr. David M. Burns

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.
Ann Radcliffe

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are … punished by fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.
Farrah Gray

All forms of fear produce fatigue.
Bertrand Russell

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so, too.
Thomas Fuller

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
Dorothy Thompson

I’ve grown certain that the root of all fear is that we’ve been forced to deny who we are.
Frances Moore Lappe

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

What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope.
Publilius Syrus

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below.
Theodosia Garrison

Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.
Florence Earle Coates

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata,