Quotes About Fear

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of "The Look."

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

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.

Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.

Peole do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. "By getting up every time I fell down," he answered.

If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.