Fear Quotes, Quotations, Proverbs and Sayings

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

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Ferdinand Foch

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we’re afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we’ll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.
Richard Bach

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Herodotus

I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it.
Ralph Connor

Don’t be afraid of being unique. It’s like being afraid of your best self.
Donald Trump

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.
Jean Bryant

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

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
A. E. Housman

Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.
Eddie Rickenbacher

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

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
Voltaire

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality
Marcus Annaeus Seneca

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.
Joan L. Curcio

I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, “Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?”
General George S. Patton

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
Merle Shain

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.
Brigitte Bardot

Fear - jealousy - money - revenge - and protecting someone you love.
Frederick Knott

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Lewis Carroll

This is the century of fear.
Albert Camus

I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.
Angela L. Wozniak

Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.
Norman Mailer