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Quotes About Fear

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
~ Ben Jonson
We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.
~ David Boies
Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination.
~ Lisa Anderson
Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.
~ Luanne Rice
Fear is the biggest motivator.
~ Bill Dixon
You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I'm terrified by reality.
~ Jean Lorrain
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
~ Albert Camus
The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Take pictures of what you fear.
~ Diane Arbus
Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.
~ Dan Millman
I say, choose faith. Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism.
~ Dallin H. Oaks
Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear.
~ Unknown
Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.
~ Marianne Williamson
As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.
~ James Bovard
Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.
~ George Clinton
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
~ Stanislav Grof
Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.
~ Nelson Mandela
Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
~ Margaret Mead
I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.
~ Daniel Boone
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
~ Khalil Gibran
We have lived through fear all our lives, and when you have gone through a whole lot of fear, sometimes all you can do is resist the fear, and resistance comes in the form of courage.
~ Leymah Gbowee
Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.
~ Michael D. Higgins