Quotes About Fear

May we understand that fear of failure is worse than failure itself

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.

Most people fear pain. I've learned that not feeling pain is a much more frightening proposition than feeling it. In fact, there are times when I'm playing when I actually enjoy it.

I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to know everyone in the audience.

My biggest fear is the ocean. It's a great big, powerful sea toilet.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.

Something indefinite is always worse than something definite, a strong fear that doesn't last very long is easier than one that's nebulous but doesn't go away.

Every choice we make is either a growth choice or a fear choice.

One forgets the fear of heights when one cannot fall

To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire.

She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it's not backed up by anything but fear.

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object.

If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.

If you think or fear too much, you can't get far!

Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.

If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new.

There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us."

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

I think fear is a very healthy motivator.

Farid had brought an invisible guest with him. Fear.