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Quotes About Fear

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
~ Unknown
Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.
~ James L. Farmer, Jr.
I can't imagine any greater fear Than waking up without you here And though the sun would still shine on My whole world would all be gone
~ Sara Evans
Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings.
~ Amby Burfoot
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
~ William Shakespeare
But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.
~ Richard Pryor
The most important are the eyes. In a fight if you look down out of fear you'll certainly be defeated
~ Mas Oyama
What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.
~ John Mellencamp
Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.
~ Cheri Huber
I fear no man. Sometimes I think I do not even fear God.
~ Zitkala-Sa
To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I don't fear God- I fear His believers.
~ Stephen Hawking
Fear of death is worse than death itself.
~ Gosho Aoyama
We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.
~ June Jordan
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
~ Aristotle
Being afraid is the worst sin there is.
~ Jean-Paul Belmondo
Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.
~ Unknown
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?
~ Peter De Vries
There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.
~ Ron Chernow
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
~ Diane Abbott
With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.
~ Edward R. Murrow
Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
~ Phil Crosby
Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that's just a clever way to justify fear and laziness.
~ Lev Landau