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Quotes About Fear

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
~ Dalai Lama
In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won.
~ Miyamoto Musashi
If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.
~ Sydney Banks
A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.
~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
~ Mark Twain
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
~ John Cage
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
~ John F. Kennedy
We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.
~ Bill W.
There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.
~ Harry S. Truman
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
~ Natalie Babbitt
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
~ Ovid
It's believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits.
~ Amy Purdy
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.
~ August Strindberg
You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.
~ Homer Rice
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
~ Anais Nin
I've never been afraid of big moments. I get butterflies.. I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs that I'm ready for the moment.
~ Stephen Curry
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
~ John Milton
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.
~ Christopher Paolini, Eldest
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
~ Carl Jung
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.
~ Charles Davis