Quotes About Fear

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Live in hope. Because things do happen. Things do change. Worry really is futile. Don't fear the future. Dreams do come true.

A goal should scare you a little, and excite you a lot.

It is easy to stay the same but it is not easy to change. Most people choose to stay the same all their lives.

Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.

The sea hates a coward.

If you are falling....dive.

Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.

The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

To worry is to add another hazard.

most people are perfectly afraid of silence

And to live without risk for me would have been tantamount to death.

You can't really live until you are no longer afraid to die.

I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.