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Quotes About Fear

Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.
~ James Altucher
Yeah, it's scary. During filming, it wasn't just jitters from being the newer guy there or the greenest guy there. It was also fear of not messing up such an important character.
~ Steven Yeun
The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
~ Livy
Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
~ Aesop
There are people who are so cautious that they are careful not to waste their fear.
~ C.J. Langenhoven
Make peace with the fear of defeat... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.
~ Brian Stann
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
~ Alan Paton
When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape
~ Charisma Carpenter
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
~ Thomas Carlyle
But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
~ Alan Paton
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
~ Alan Paton
I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.
~ Teri Hatcher
The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!
~ Franz Stampfl
Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.
~ Napoleon Hill
I think everyone is born creative but it can be suppressed by fear.
~ Evan Spiegel
No child is ever born afraid. Fear is a learned behavior.
~ Cherie Carter-Scott
What's important is how you deal with fear. I face it head-on, but I'm not too proud to admit that I do get afraid sometimes.
~ Denzel Whitaker
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
~ Ovid
We fear only what we haven't understood.
~ Byron Katie
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
~ Michel de Montaigne
Some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart.
~ John J. Geddes
I'm also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, "Do not actually put your hand in the alligator," while terror says, "Avoid Florida entirely because alligators exist.
~ Mira Grant
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to really be afraid of is if you don't go get your mammograms.
~ Cynthia Nixon
In reality there is nothing to fear in the present. Fear is projected onto the present by memory.
~ Deepak Chopra