Fear Quotes

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.
William Shakespeare

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Richard Bach

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Marie Curie

Fear is excitement without breath.
Robert Heller

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Henry Ford

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing, which you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Redmoon

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
John F. Kennedy

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
Peter T. McIntyre

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Marie Curie

Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes.
Frank Goble

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
Dr Wayne Dyer

You either move toward something you love or away from something you fear. The first expands. The second constricts.
Tom Crum

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
George Christoph Lichtenberg

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller

You can't discover new oceans unless you have the courage to leave the shore.
Anonymous

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore

Be brave enough to live creatively…. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you will discover will be wonderful. What you will discover will be yourself.
Alan Alda

To him who is in fear, everything rustles.
Sophocles

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
Virgil Thomson

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
Ruth E. Renkel

Feel the fear and do it anyway. Susan Jeffers