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Quotes About Fear

There is no worse emotion than fear.
~ Joe Torre
When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.
~ Joe Torre
Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.
~ John Adams
Where then shall hope and fear their objects find?
~ John Ashbery
I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.
~ John B. S. Haldane
Marti wasn't the type to give up without a fight, especially not if she was very afraid - some people are like that. They lean into the fear.
~ John Barnes
States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.
~ John Bruton
You can't avoid fear. No magic potion will take it away. And you can't wait for motivation to get you going. To conquer fear, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway.
~ John C. Maxwell
Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.
~ Bertrand Russell
People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what
~ Paulo Coelho
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
~ Plato
I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.
~ Taylor Swift
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
~ Joseph Campbell
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
~ Plato
Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful
~ Warren Buffett
When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently.
~ Eckhart Tolle
No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
~ Edmund Burke
Maybe he sells fear because he's got nothing else to sell.
~ Stephen King, The Stand
I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
~ Edmund Burke
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
~ Voltaire