Quotes About Fear

How often the fear of one evil leads into a worse.

Human beings are born with just two basic fears. One is the fear of loud noises. The other is the fear of falling. All other fears must be learned.

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor, to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. ... No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases ... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure ran a strong second.

It is not death that a man should fear, he should fear never beginning to live.

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be all right.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They are more afraid of life than death.

Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.

He who fears death cannot enjoy life.

To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.

It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.

We must act in spite of fear ... not because of it.

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

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

Anxiety is fear of one's self.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

The government is concerned about the population explosion, and the population is concerned about the government explosion.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.