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Quotes About Fear

The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda
~ Joe Bageant
Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.
~ Haruki Murakami
Never fear because Triple H is here.
~ Triple H
When there is fear of failure, there will be failure.
~ George S. Patton
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
~ C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
~ Samuel Butler
Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the action in the face of fear.
~ Mark Messier
Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.
~ Faye Dunaway
The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.
~ Richard Paul Evans
I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.
~ Billy Bob Thornton
In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.
~ Juana Inés de la Cruz
What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.
~ Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
~ Edward Albert
I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.
~ Diane Abbott
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.
~ Anwar Sadat
Obeying from love is better than to obey from fear.
~ Rashi
The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Courage is one step ahead of fear.
~ Coleman Young
Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure.
~ Bryan Adams
Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.
~ Emile M. Cioran
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
~ Chanakya
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.
~ Meg Cabot
One will never reach distant shores, if he chooses to remain upon the dock, In fear his little ship of dreams may be dashed against the rocks.
~ Fethullah Gulen