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Fear Quotes
Fear Quotes Index
About Fear
"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark." "What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope." "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." "The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear." "Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest." "Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear." "When desire dies, fear is born." "Fear makes us feel our humanity." "Where fear is, happiness is not." "Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear." Return to Index of Fear Quotes "There is no passion so contagious as that of fear." "Fear has many eyes and can see things underground." "Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another." "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." "Fear is the highest fence." "Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small." "Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends." "Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself." "Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind." "Fear is faith that it won't work out." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Bible Verses"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me." "The LORD is my light and my salvation-- whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life-- of whom shall I be afraid?" "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." "There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Conquering Fear"Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out." "Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will." "Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear." "We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot." "Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." "When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear." Return to Index of Fear Quotes "Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain." Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." "Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear." "If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." "Thinking will not overcome fear but action will." "Action conquers fear." "A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Detriment of Fear"Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake." "Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world." "No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear." "The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything." "Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." "Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles." "Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day." "If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost." "Those that walk with fear will always be too busy hiding." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Fear and Faith"Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy." "Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence." "You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith." "There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid." "Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Fear and Hate"Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Fear and Love"I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear." "We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear." "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." "Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment." "Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here." "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Fear and Success"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." "The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Fear in Battle"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles." "Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood." "The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!" Return to Index of Fear Quotes Fear of Change"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters." "I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Fear of Death"Why are we scared to die? Do any of us remember being scared when we were born?" "People living deeply have no fear of death." "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead." "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." "People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend." "I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Fear of Evil"I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Fear of Failure"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Fear of Mistakes"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out." "The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Fear of Poverty"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live." "Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Fear of Success"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it." "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Fear of the Unknown"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." "Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Funny"All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears--of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words 'Some Assembly Required.'" "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic." "I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Good Advice"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed." "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." "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." "The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds." "He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life." "The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death." "Listen to what you know instead of what you fear." "The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best." Return to Index of Fear Quotes "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." "Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart." "What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it." "Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it." "Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others." "Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight." "The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear." "The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Illusion of Fear"Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real." "What are fears but voices airy? "I must not fear. "Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind." "The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free." "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Insightful"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold." "You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you." "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." "Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?" "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important." "Fear follows crime and is its punishment." Return to Index of Fear Quotes "He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy." "Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear." "A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty." "Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown." "It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death." "Scalded cats fear even cold water." "Fear is just your feelings asking for a hug." "I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." "To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear." "Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death." "I more fear what is within me than what comes from without." "Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." "If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?" Return to Index of Fear Quotes Inspirational"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear." "Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey." "I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." "As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others." "The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity." "Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven." "No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Profound"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." "Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death." "Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness." "We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves." "Fear cannot take what you do not give it." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Proverbs"Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is." "Fear is only as deep as the mind allows." "A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope." "He who fears something gives it power over him." "He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Usefulness of Fear"Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety." "Fear has its use but cowardice has none." "Fear is the mother of morality." "Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress." "Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it." "There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls." "Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger." Return to Index of Fear Quotes Return to Life Quotes - from Fear Quotes
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