Fear quotes:
People living deeply have no fear of death.”
Anais Nin
“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.”
Karl Augustus Menninger
“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.”
James F. Byrnes
“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
Rudyard Kipling
“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”
James Stephens
“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”
Herman Melville
“Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real.”
Unknown
“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.”
William Allen White
“Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.”
Isa Upanishad, Hindu Scripture
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
Seneca
“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”’
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Where no hope is left, is left no fear.”
Milton
“Laughter is poison to fear.”
George R.R. Martin
“Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.”
Japanese Proverb
“Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.”
Dale Carnegie
“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.”
Henry Ford
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”
Helen Keller
“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”
Eric Hoffer
“Fear makes us feel our humanity.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“To overcome fear, here’s all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.”
Peter McWilliams
“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.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.”
Arnold Glasow
