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Quotes About Fear

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.
~ Martin Freeman
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
~ Jim Morrison
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
I take a deep breath and sidestep my fear and begin speaking from the place where beauty and bravery meet--within the chambers of a quivering heart.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.
~ Robert Moses
Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.
~ John Climacus
Fear is feeling, is not what do you think. That feeling keeps your body in every way to 100% and makes you react like a wild animal. It gives you that extra than you have in a normal
~ Unknown
We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
My only fear is the unknown.
~ David Blaine
Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average
~ Alonzo King
Whether our fear is absolutely realistic or out of proportion in our minds, our greatest refuge is Jesus Christ.
~ Luci Swindoll
Fear and guilt are your only enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do you do that? By deciding to.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Perfect love drives out fear
~ Karen Kingsbury
Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.
~ John Wooden
The fear is for what is still to be lost.
~ Joan Didion
As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!
~ Jonathan Brandis
There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
~ Alfred Adler
I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn't fear anything
~ Robert Pattinson
It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.
~ Ambrose Burnside
Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.
~ Robert Rauschenberg
The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.
~ Pema Chodron
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
~ Edmund Burke
Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it.
~ Kyra Davis