Quotes About Fear

Those who fear the new are the ones who have mastered the old.

Inside all of us is... hope. Inside all of us is... fear. Inside all of us is... adventure. Inside all of us is a wild thing.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

Fear is the fear of one's self.

See yourself confronting your fears in your mind's eye and handling those fears like a champ.

Is your fear of failure greater than your desire to succeed?

Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.

Behind every bad law, a deep fear.

You're stronger than you believe. Don't let your fear own you. Own yourself.

Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.

The fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.

Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.

I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.

Sometimes people have to remind you to aim high. Most of us are afraid of aiming high for fear of failure and our biggest failure is that we aim too low.

Terrorism is a crime against the mind. We win by refusing fear.

Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall

The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads.

So now I know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'd rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone I can't predict.

I know very well that the political classes have spread fear among the electorate: Without the euro, the sun will cease shining, the rivers will stop flowing, we will enter an ice age.

The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.

Flight is essential, but I can't let my fear show.