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Quotes About Fear

I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.
~ Unknown
He who fears something gives it power over him.
~ Moorish proverb
The only way you can become brave is, going through the fear but not going away from it.
~ tirumala
All fear is bondage.
~ Anonymous
No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
~ Cicero
There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
I propose changing fear for hope. I propose changing Mexico.
~ Enrique Pena Nieto
Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.
~ Joel Salatin
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
~ Thomas Hobbes
I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
~ Lech Walesa
The craven's fear is but selfishness like his merriment.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of men.
~ John Witherspoon
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed and often makes a better fighter of him.
~ Louis L'Amour
Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.
~ Henry H. Tweedy
I feel like the majority of the fear that I had or that we have we hold from other people. They're like people that we trust they're their fears. All of a sudden we think that they're our fears.
~ Alicia Keys
Fear born of that stern matron Responsibility.
~ William McFee
Fear is an uneasiness of the mind upon the thought of a future evil likely to befall us.
~ John Locke
There is nothing in the universe that I fear but that I shall not know all my duty or fail to do it.
~ Mary Lyon
I can stand what I know. It's what I don't know that frightens me.
~ Frances Newton
FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.
~ Anonymous
Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind.
~ Sophie Tunnell
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear.
~ William Congreve
We all fear what we don't know-it's natural.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
~ Arnold Glasow