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Quotes About Fear

I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.
~ Junior Seau
I conquered a fear of heights and water by bungee jumping from a crane over a lake. And if thats not crazy enough, I also wrestled a greased pig in a mud pit.
~ Unknown
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
~ Jack Lemmon
I'm motivated by fear. Fear of fear. I hate being scared to do something. And I think what developed in my early days was the attitude that I started attacking things that I was scared of.
~ Will Smith
Having the courage to make decisions and take action. Never be afraid to fail. You have nothing to fear if you have prepared to the best of your ability.
~ John Wooden
The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.
~ Earl Sweatshirt
Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment.
~ Candace Pert
Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.
~ Jim Rohn
My love, I fear the silence of your hands.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.
~ Shirin Ebadi
Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
~ Plotinus
It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.
~ Glennon Melton
Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.
~ Pope Clement I
Fear-filled words will defeat you, but faith-filled words will put you over!
~ Charles Capps
The real malady is fear of life, not of death
~ Naguib Mahfouz
It's foolish to fear what we've yet to see and know.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
The fear of the Lord tends to take away all other fears... This is the secret of Christian courage and boldness.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.
~ Kobo Abe
It's not the fear of writing that blocks people, it's fear of not writing well; something quite different.
~ Scott Berkun
A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.
~ James Stockdale
There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.
~ Hamza Yusuf
Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The use of force, including beatings, undoubtedly has brought about the impact we wanted - strengthening the [occupied] population's fear of the Israeli Defense Forces.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
Fear is nothing but idleness of the will.
~ Éliphas Lévi