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Quotes About Fear

One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
~ Katherine Mansfield
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
~ Epictetus
I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.
~ Julia Child
Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
~ Martha Beck
If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.
~ Chin-Ning Chu
The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'
~ Plato
We are more concerned about looking stupid (fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).
~ Edward T Welch
I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
~ Salvador Dali
The one who knows and fears the Lord of Hosts need fear no other.
~ Edmund Clowney
Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
~ Stanislav Grof
Fear can be overcome only by Faith.
~ Grantly Dick-Read
hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words
~ Gregory David Roberts
What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.
~ Michelle Sagara
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings.
~ Kevin Bacon
It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.
~ George Orwell
If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?
~ Bill Hybels
Fear is the ultimate cause of failure and disappointment.
~ Emmet Fox
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.
~ Huey Newton
He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
~ John Keats
Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
~ Steven Pressfield
Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear.
~ Ryan Holiday
People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
~ William Sloane Coffin
Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson