99 Fear Quotes

1.  Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. Benjamin Franklin
2. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Edmund Burke
3. We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration. Alanis Morissette
4. The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long. Mitt Romney
5. I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver. Adele
6. A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart. Lewis Thomas
7. Limits, like fear, is often an illusion. Michael Jordan
8. Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child. Marilyn Monroe
9. While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love. Bo Bennett
10. As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles. Simone Weil
11. Fear is always a good motivator. James Dyson
12. Fear is the foundation of most governments. John Adams
13. Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear. Jonathan Sacks
14. Fear is exciting for me. Ayrton Senna
15. I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon. Tom Brady
16. There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? Barbara Ehrenreich
17. I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs. Diane Abbott
18. The thing we fear we bring to pass. Elbert Hubbard
19. Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo. Camille Paglia
20. I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc. Hans Blix
21. My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty. Andrew Cuomo
22. Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. Lord Byron
23. Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear. Joseph Conrad
24. The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
25. When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. Bell Hooks
26. I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better. Anthony Kiedis
27. I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly. Mos Def
28. Let us banish fear. Carter G. Woodson
29. To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it. Horace
30. The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear. Thomas Huxley
31. Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear. George W. Bush
32. Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. William E. Gladstone
33. My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. William Tecumseh Sherman
34. The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow. Geraldine Brooks
35. So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear. Jesse Jackson
36. Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. Benjamin Disraeli
37. No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted. Olive Schreiner
38. It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm. Sophocles
39. Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. Marian Anderson
40. I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear. Frank Ocean
41. It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me. Jodie Foster
42. We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
43. President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation. Eliot Spitzer
44. Realists do not fear the results of their study. Fyodor Dostoevsky
45. Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace. Nelson Mandela
46. We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries. Harry S. Truman
47. Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me. Ryan White
48. War is fear cloaked in courage. William Westmoreland
49. Fear is the mother of morality. Friedrich Nietzsche
50. As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there. Beth Ditto
51. Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue. Diane Abbott
52. Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. Gerald Jampolsky
53. Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society. Natan Sharansky
54. The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead! George S. Patton
55. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie
56. Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority. Elbert Hubbard
57. The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me. Lyndon B. Johnson
58. Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God. Charles Stanley
59. What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. Saint Augustine
60. Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation. Gouverneur Morris
61. Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. Henry Miller
62. Scalded cats fear even cold water. Thomas Fuller
63. People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. Mary McCarthy
64. I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear. Billy Corgan
65. America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. Harry S. Truman
66. The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. Charles Rangel
67. Resist your fear fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe. T. D. Jakes
68. As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it. Chanakya
69. The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do. Wayne Dyer
70. Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes. Vanessa Paradis
71. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. Joseph Chilton Pearce
72. Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. Pope John Paul II
73. A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty. David Hume
74. Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. Charles Frohman
75. When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. Tecumseh
76. See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored. Garrett Hedlund
77. People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety. Henry Louis Gates
78. Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash. Cecil Beaton
79. I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours. Arabella Weir
80. Those who own much have much to fear. Rabindranath Tagore
81. I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. Charles de Montesquieu
82. If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Indira Gandhi
83. How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. George MacDonald
84. Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control. Virginia C. Andrews
85. Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
86. That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else. Steve Irwin
87. There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary. Emmanuel Teney
88. Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it. Gregory Bateson
89. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. Dale Carnegie
90. In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach. Andy Murray
91. Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. Dorothy Thompson
92. People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. Bill Gates
93. The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true. Alexander Payne
94. Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. William Hazlitt
95. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes. Francis Bacon
96. As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others. Marianne Williamson
97. I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities. Tony Kushner
98. Fear of failure has always been my best motivator. Douglas Wood
99. Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people. Florence Welch