Top 100 Fear Is Quotes
#1. Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.
John McCain
#3. My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
Anthony Horowitz
#4. My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency,
Shirley Chisholm
#5. Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.
Alexander Lowen
#7. Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.
Alex Lowe
#8. The best thing about fear is that it provides a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate courage.
Mardy Grothe
#9. The real thing young people should fear is missing out on those few, true, long-term friendships that make for a richer, happier life.
Robin Marantz Henig
#12. Fear is something that really causes the people not to ascend within the spiritual and physical realm. Once you have Jah as a shield and a guide, you got to arm yourself and nothing can you any harm.
Sizzla
#13. To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
Katherine Paterson
#14. What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.
Francois Mauriac
#15. This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.
Cammie McGovern
#16. To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.
Kate Winslet
#17. The loss of control you fear is already in the past.
Clay Shirky
#18. Own your history and be who you are. To hide bits and pieces of yourself out of shame or fear is to be half-alive. To offer only half of yourself to others is to cheat them and yourself.
Margo Christie
#19. Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.
Henri Nouwen
#20. Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.
Lois Wyse
#22. Nina rested her chin atop Inej's silky hair. "Zoya used to say that fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return." (p188)
Leigh Bardugo
#24. Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.
Sidney Crosby
#25. Fear is a conditioned response, a life-draining habit that can easily consume your energy, creativity and spirit if you are not careful. When fear rears its ugly head, beat it down quickly. The best way to do that is to do the thing you fear. Fast.
Robin S. Sharma
#27. If light is love, then fear is its shadow
L.J. Vanier
#28. Your own Fear is the greatest obstacle you will ever face on your journey. Let your Faith be bigger than your Fear.
Eleanor Brown
#29. My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all.
Craig Venter
#31. Guilt is a hunter.
Fate is a hunter.
Shame is a hunter.
Fear is a hunter.
Ruta Sepetys
#32. When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is designed by fear. Is fear the architect of me?
David Richo
#33. Fear is born from ignorance. We think that the other person is trying to take away something from us. But if we look deeply, we see that the desire of the other person is exactly our own desire - to have peace, to be able to have a chance to live.
Nhat Hanh
#34. When one has no fear of insults, no one will insult him; that is the rule. The 'transactions' will continue as long as there is fear. The moment fear is gone, the transactions will end.
Dada Bhagwan
#35. Collect the power. Because our fear has power. And our fear is paralyzing, and our fear sets us off course. So it's about gathering and collecting that power, waking it up. And dedicating your life to honoring it.
Rod Stryker
#36. If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends.
Sigmund Freud
#37. Atrocitus: You believe fear to be the most powerful force in the universe? Fear is inaction. Fear is hiding away. Fear is cowering and begging. Rage is action. Rage is spilling blood. Sinestro: Rage is uncontrollable.
William Irwin
#38. Fear is excitement without the breath. Here's what this intriguing statement means: the very same mechanisms that produce excitement also produce fear, and any fear can be transformed into excitement by breathing fully with it.
Gay Hendricks
#39. There are only two emotions: one is Love and the other is fear. Love is our true reality. Fear is something our mind has made up, and is therefore unreal.
Gerald G. Jampolsky
#40. In love, sometimes what you fear is exactly what you need.
M. Leighton
#41. If epigenetic changes caused by trauma such as the Holocaust, or enslavement, can be passed through generations, as researchers have recently found, perhaps some of us are hard-wired to be afraid because our history has taught us that fear is a kind of armor.
Amy Brill
#42. Have faith that God won't send you anything you're incapable of handling. You can decide that the word fear is an acronym for ... False Evidence Appearing Real.
Wayne Dyer
#43. Fear is the reason I can't let this go, either. It's the reason Rachel needs to believe that whatever happened is Stacey's fault. It's why she insists that we're all very different from Stacey. Because the truth is that if it could happen to Stacey, it could happen to any of us. By
Aaron Hartzler
#44. He has mercy on those who fear Him, from generation to generation." Fear is here understood as filial, that is, a shrinking from hurting one who is loved. Such is the fear a son has for a devoted father and the fear a Christian has of Christ. Fear is here related to love.
Fulton J. Sheen
#45. Fear is hugely contagious. Used skillfully by politicians looking to manipulate voters, it can become toxic and capable of infecting more than just a few.
Mike Barnicle
#46. Bravery is a willing decision to do what must be done. Fear is a cancer that is cured only by doing what must be done, backed by an intelligent, open mind.
Corey Aaron Burkes
#48. Fear is an exciting time. It's our soul telling us that we need to change. Change is powerful.
Jim MacLaren
#49. Fear is the bane of all creatures and bubbles inside all forming a rock of solidifying darkness, sucking all will power to act or to think or to say away. Fear is the bane of all creatures, it is our black hole we cannot live without.
Isabella Irini Poretsis
#50. At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This explains why angry people have low self-esteem, are argumentative, stubborn, and quick to flare up yet slow to forgive. Those behaviors are defenses against the underlying fear.
David J. Lieberman
#51. Sometimes war is necessary in order that we can finally find peace. Sometimes fear is necessary for the soul to find its path again.
Paulo Coelho
#52. I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.
Trevor McDonald
#53. Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
Marilyn Ferguson
#54. In your living room, you're scared shitless. And that's just where the power structure wants you. In the middle of a riot, I've never found anybody who's chickenshit. The way to eliminate fear is to do what you're most afraid of.
Jerry Rubin
#55. Trying to motivate yourself with fear is like screaming
at a child, "Do something, dammit!" You'll either
freeze up or act in counterproducti ve ways. Fear
widens the knowing-doing gap. Don't use it.
Martha Beck
#56. Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.
Anne Rice
#58. But while all fear is not laziness, much fear is exactly that. Much of our fear is fear of a change in the status quo, a fear that we might lose what we have if we venture forth from where we are now. In the section on discipline I spoke of the fact
M. Scott Peck
#59. My biggest fear is that the enlightened Arab thinkers are gong to leave the Arab world in search of fresh air: somewhere far away from the sword of the religious authorities.
Raif Badawi
#60. Love is ruthless; it doesn't feel sorry for anyone, but it does have compassion. Fear is full of pity; it feels sorry for everyone.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#62. My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'
Rachel Platten
#63. Before you judge me too harshly, consider your own deepest fears - real or imagined. Actually, all fear is born of the imagination, which means that the danger we fear doesn't need to be rational or even real to be potent.
Richard Paul Evans
#64. Fear is what keeps the walls up, so open the gate and let what you want, in when you want
Joshua Wright
#65. Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#66. We waste too much time being afraid, when what we should really fear is wasting time.
Stephanie Shirley
#67. Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.
Byron Katie
#68. Fear is not my portion, limitation is not my portion for that reason I will dream massive dreams and I will continue to dream until the end of my road.
Euginia Herlihy
#69. Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
Virgil
#70. The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying.
Marya Hornbacher
#71. Fear is not always a sin but it always is an opportunity.
Mark Driscoll
#72. I'm always looking for a reason to say no when I'm approached about a big studio tentpole because your fear is will you be consumed into the anonymous machine, and it will suck out any specificity and point of view that you might hope to express.
Matt Reeves
#73. It's okay to be scared, but fear is different. Fear is when we let being scared prevent us from doing what love requires of us.
Mairead Corrigan
#74. Fear is the original sin," wrote John Foster. "Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.
L.M. Montgomery
#75. Fear is a basic human instinct and an indicator of the gravity of a situation. It becomes an asset if it is effectively controlled. It becomes a weakness for a man if he lets it prevail over him.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#76. Fear is temporary. Regret is permanent. Adventure is taking a chance because it's better than the question mark if you don't.
Dan Skinner
#77. It's not about the elimination of fear. Rather it's about the elimination of the feeling that the elimination of fear is necessary before we take the next step.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#79. Fear is created which can lead to racism. However, we can overcome that fear through trust.
Tariq Ramadan
#81. Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh.
Clarence Jordan
#82. Fear is what inhibits us moving forward.
Rod Stryker
#83. I'm scared of everything," I admitted, Voice hushed. " everything. My biggest fear is forever that I'll be like this forever.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#84. Fear is a lonely thing. Even those who love us best cannot get close to us when we are afraid.
Elizabeth Goudge
#85. When you love, you are not lonely. The sense of loneliness arises only when you are frightened of being alone and of not knowing what to do. When you are controlled by ideas, isolated by beliefs, then fear is inevitable; and when you are afraid, you are completely blind.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#86. Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
Philip Sidney
#87. People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.
Carey Mulligan
#88. One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
Miguel De Cervantes
#90. The day when love is stronger than fear is the day we'll begin to discover our true power.
April White
#91. The superior weapon of choice to fight ineffective, unwarranted distrust and fear, is a commitment to believing in others, coupled with a charitable heart; it is then that logic and intellect can be most successfully employed to deal with such negative emotions.
Connie Kerbs
#92. My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.
Richard Dreyfuss
#93. It doesn't translate perfectly, but the gist is this; fear is the heart alone.
T. Ellery Hodges
#94. Fear is the greatest form of oppression.
The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to
its fullest!
Megan McCafferty
#95. Humans always have fear of an unknown situation
this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.
John Herschel
#96. My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.
Trey Parker
#97. The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#98. Remember, the best cure for worry is to do something positive. That's because fear is endless and formless, whereas even the worst outcome has an ending.
Adeline Yen Mah
#99. Fear is not only a leaden foe, but a liar as well. It was not as bad as I thought it would be, sitting there in a London department store on an ordinary Saturday.
Susan Meissner
#100. FEAR IS A REACTION YOU HAVE WHEN YOU'RE GETTING CLOSER TO THE TRUTH
Jim Palmer
