Best Fear Quotes

#1. If I give up my career as a skater simply because I fear I won't show my best performance, I would be really sorry later in life.

Kim Yuna

#2. Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.

Victor Hugo

#3. When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice.

Michele Cassou

#4. All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.

Carla H. Krueger

#5. The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.

Jewel

#6. She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me, and sometimes that's the best you can do with people. I'd tried kindness. I'd tried friendship. I'd tried respect. But when all else fails, fear will do the job.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#7. At the moment of greatest fear, the best solution is to go boldly and without hesitation.

Robert Ferrigno

#8. People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

Gregory David Roberts

#9. No failure you have need to fear, Except to fail to do your best - What have you done, what can you do? That is the question, that the test.

Various

#10. Loving without judgment or fear of abandonment is. . . . the toughest activity known to mankind and I think with best friend that can be even more pronounced because you aren't my mom, we don't have kids together - but we do have matching tattoos.

Rebecca Traister

#11. It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching.

Octavia E. Butler

#12. We need to believe in a bright, compelling and sustainable future. Fear neither motivates people long-term nor brings out the best in them. Hope is a powerful motivator.

Arron Wood

#13. Best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.

David Weber

#15. Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

#16. I believe fear of what we do not know may be the devil's best tool, meant to keep us back from those we long to approach.

Vicki Grove

#17. A dreamer rises above their inherent fearfulness that they will always produce inferior work and grants oneself a license to put forth their best effort.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#18. Though you should not fear failure, you should do your very best to avoid it.

Conan O'Brien

#19. Nature is one of the best antidotes to fear.

Richard Louv

#20. How was I to be a scientist, father Lion?' Science is knowing. What could I have known? Others always did the knowing, knew what was in me, what should come out of me, what was best for me. I didn't know who I was, what I wanted. I know less now, and I am afraid.

Russell Hoban

#21. I love the unknown. I think because it brings fear, and to embrace fear is the best feeling.

Juliette Binoche

#22. My biggest fear is expending the best and most exciting energy in sketches, no matter how quickly executed. I often need to empty the rubbish bin several times before regaining the fresh quality of the initial exploratory sketches.

Catherine Stock

#23. Fears and expectations that date back to earlier experiences of dependency, but that didn't arise during courtship or dating, are activated as commitment to the relationship increases. As a result, partners start to anticipate the worst, not the best from their relationship.

Stan Tatkin

#24. Fear is a Dangerous Animal.
Best kept on a short leash ...

William Curtis

#25. Hoping a situation will change keeps you at a distance from your true feelings-sadness, anger, fear. Each of these feelings is best appreciated up close. Feel them deeply, and they will cease to bother you. Hope they'll go away, and they'll bother you all day.

Gay Hendricks

#26. He held to the old guidelines: work hard, do your best, speak the truth, assume no airs, trust in God, have no fear.

David McCullough

#27. There are only two stimulants to ones best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.

John Moulder Wilson

#28. Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers

Robert E.Lee

#30. Punishment and judgment don't create a reformed heart; they create - at best - a heart full of fear, and - at worst - a heart full of rebellion.

Tullian Tchividjian

#31. Where the Magic Awaits: The Worst Becomes the Absolute Best

Holly Elissa Bruno

#32. The very thing you fear could be the best thing to ever happen to you

Michael Dell

#33. Don't believe everything you think. Our minds are thought-creating machines. Most of these thoughts are fear-based. Our authentic self has the power to pick the thoughts that best serve us and those we lead.

Henna Inam

#34. My mom was the center of my support system, that place I always went to talk things through, whether I was feeling joy or fear. She was always there with a huge, open heart and the best advice.

Corbin Bernsen

#35. The best treatment for stress, anxiety, and depression is to change your perception by knowing that all of this is coming from a fear induced illusion.

Debasish Mridha

#36. Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

#37. Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

H.P. Lovecraft

#38. Children read books, not reviews," he wrote. "They don't give a hoot about the critics." And: "When a book is boring, they yawn openly, without any shame or fear of authority." Best of all - and to the relief of authors everywhere - children "don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity.

Steven D. Levitt

#39. The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
- Aristotle

Aristotle.

#40. The best way to overcome your fear of creativity, brainstorming, intelligent risk-taking, or navigating a tricky situation might be to sprint.

Seth Godin

#41. You're probably scare, and nervous, and just about ready to pee your pants. But don't run from your fear. Embrace it! Because believe me, the best things in life are worth fighting for.

Victoria Jamieson

#42. Folding Ideas put it best: The use of fear tactics, even if only by a minority, creates an environment of fear that all members enjoy the privilege of, whether they engage in them or not.

Felicia Day

#43. The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#44. What stands between soulful, spiritual, and successful you is the wall of self assumed and society induced fears. Kill the fear with the fountain of love that is there within you. Being love is the best way to overcome fear.

Vishwas Chavan

#45. Don't fear change. It's always for the best.

Richard Bach

#46. The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

George Eliot

#47. Steven lets go of his humanity with much more relief than fear. It was an awkward burden to carry at the best of times.

Mike Carey

#48. The best leaders are gentle. In our culture, we have been misled to believe that the tougher we are, the more respect we will gain, but that is simply not true. What we gain by being tough is fear, and fear is not respect. Respect is gained by giving it away.

Rebecca Eanes

#49. Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.

Christine Comaford-Lynch

#50. All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.

Thomas Campion

#51. The Unknown is scary. I'll always have some fear about what's going to happen next. The thing is, the Unknown can also be exciting. Your life could change in an instant anytime. But sometimes, that change is the best thing that will ever happen to you.

Susane Colasanti

#52. When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#53. Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

Harry S. Truman

#54. See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

Robbie Coltrane

#55. We turned into each other's best excuse for not doing the things we were afraid of.

Tracy Guzeman

#56. What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher ... Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.

Louise J. Kaplan

#57. Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, to hide every pain.

Will Smith

#58. There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

Rickie Lee Jones

#59. In daily life there is an inner transition I can consciously practice. This is the transition from fear to faith. Faced with ambiguity and uncertainty, I can choose to believe things will work out for the best.

Julia Cameron

#60. After a Great Victory.-The best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat. " Why should I not be worsted for once ? " he says to himself, " I am now rich enough to stand it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#61. Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.

Mark Lawrence

#62. Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Peter Straub

#63. Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.

Mike Tyson

#64. Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like.

Lynn Jones

#65. Fear comes from the lack of knowledge and a state of ignorance. The best remedy for fear is to gain knowledge.

Debasish Mridha

#66. Love isn't about living in fear. It's not about controlling the hearts of those around you. It is patient and kind. It endures and believes the very best. It never gives up.

Tracie Peterson

#67. To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder ... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.

Norman Mailer

#68. Never back down, never fear anyone, for the best opponents will help you to play your best.

John Kessel

#69. After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.

Anthony Trollope

#70. Giving in to fear alters God's best plan for your life. So use the power of God's Word to do what He wants you to do ... even if you have to do it afraid! The rewards are great.

Joyce Meyer

#71. Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

Lauren Oliver

#72. The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.

Charles Spurgeon

#73. Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success.

Michael Jordan

#74. I do everything I can to be the best actor I can be, the best musician I can be. I try to take risks; I try not to let fear run my life.

Robert David Hall

#75. To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear

Marilynne Robinson

#76. Fear is the devil, always, and throws on into darkness. To accept is the best way ~Saba

Ted Dekker

#77. Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked

Laurell K. Hamilton

#78. I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.

Robert Byrd

#79. 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.

Earl Nightingale

#80. The best way to do that is to do the thing you fear.

Robin S. Sharma

#81. The sense of fear and loss that accompanies the letting go of dreams that will never be is best described by the German word torschlusspanik, defined as "panic at the thought that a door between oneself and life's opportunities has shut.

KathleenA. Brehony

#82. The best way to expose our ignorance is to hold on to biased ideas and opinions, because we fear giving the upper hand to the other side.

Charles F. Glassman

#83. Trust your gut, and don't let fear get the best of you.

Anna Jarzab

#84. But best of all ... I got love. Not love under fear or condition. Not love that comes with a price. I got real, honest to god love in all its purest forms. Family love. Friend love. Unconditional love.

Samantha Towle

#85. You've got so much up ahead
You'll make new friends
You should see your kids and wife
And I'd end up saying have no fear
These are nowhere near the best years of your life

Brad Paisley

#86. My wife is my best friend. The thought that people are afraid to go home to their partners for fear of being abused physically or emotionally makes me feel sick. It's not easy but you need to get help and get out.

Shane Filan

#87. We have to deal with fear because it is possible that it will make us miss the best parts of life.

Jennie Allen

#88. Stay away from people who don't know who they are but want you to be just like them. People who'll want to label you. People who'll try to write their fears on your face.

Richard Peck

#89. Humans without humanity, A world of dread and fear for eternity.

Mouloud Benzadi

#90. The worst thing you can do with fear and anxiety is to pretend you're too strong to have them. The best thing you can do is just to let Him be in charge of them. Because He's in charge anyway. And in Him, you're in His peace.

Matt Chandler

#91. The best way to overcome fear is to start doing what you are afraid of.

Sunday Adelaja

#92. In a lot of ways, certain things, it feels like they're never going to go away. The best thing to do is continue to ask questions, look that fear in the eye.

Tyler Blackburn

#93. Sweetly and subtly perfumed ... so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who have to pick, ship, handle and store it in constant fear of ruinous spoilage.

Waverley Root

#94. The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear from thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.

John Stuart Mill

#95. With more money brings more fear and when you're trying to be creative in a fear-based environment it's dangerous. Then decisions are made out of fear, not what's best for the film.

Lake Bell

#96. But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.

Tracie Bennett

#97. The best part of chronic head lice is it takes away your fear of dying alone.

Dana Gould

#98. The best way to come to terms with anything that is out of harmony is never to fear it - that gives it power. Bring good influences to bear upon it; make yourself a good example.

Peace Pilgrim

#99. But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

Barry Bonds

#100. She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.

Alistair MacLean