If You Fear Quotes

#1. The universe will never force a mindset on you. You have complete free agency to choose fear and suffer unnecessarily if you want to.

Kimberly Giles

#2. The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap.

Anna Quindlen

#3. 'She's an era for you, an era of your life. If and when you break with her, you break with the only one alive who has shared that time with you. You fear that, the isolation of it, the burden, the scope of eternal life.

Anne Rice

#4. If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life.

Mark Batterson

#5. Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

Anthony De Mello

#6. My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear."

Guillermo Del Toro

#7. What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

Toni Morrison

#8. Then one day you will be sitting and fear will arise, and you will feel it and recognize it and think, "Oh, this is fear, I recognize you. Welcome back." Then it is as if the fear becomes one of your friends.

Jack Kornfield

#9. If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.

Epictetus

#10. If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.

Hakim Ibn Hizam

#11. If you take yourself to be the body and mind only, you will die! When you discover yourself as awareness, the fear of death will not trouble you any longer.

Mooji

#12. The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.

Tom Robbins

#13. If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.

Amelie Nothomb

#14. Get scared later, and if you're scared now remember what Kit always said. If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery. And you want to be brave, don't you, Snicket?

Lemony Snicket

#15. When was the last time you kissed somebody new. If you can tackle that fear, you've nothing to fear.

Sarvesh Jain

#16. If your dream doesn't scare you, it's not big enough.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#17. Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

Alex North

#18. The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second leg, hire divinity to pull you along.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#19. The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

Oswald Chambers

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

Jerry Seinfeld

#23. If you were born really ugly like me, have no fear. There's steps you can take to be good-looking. Kind of.

Jenna Marbles

#24. It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.

Jodi Picoult

#25. If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark.

Steven Millhauser

#26. If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

Tori Amos

#27. 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.

Dale Carnegia

#28. If you're always scared of dying," Obispo had said, "you'll surely die. Fear's a poison; and not such a slow poison either.

Aldous Huxley

#29. If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#30. If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.

Eckhart Tolle

#31. You can't gather much if you won't go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns; they'll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they'll get.

Israelmore Ayivor

#32. If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it.

Clyde Edgerton

#33. If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.

Sherri Shepherd

#34. Love dispels fear just as light dispels darkness. If even for a moment you have been in love with someone, fear disappears and thinking stops. With fear thinking continues. The more you are afraid, the more you have to think.

Rajneesh

#35. If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.

Confucius

#36. You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows!

Rick Warren

#37. Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

Dani Shapiro

#38. Love can't exist without fear. If the thought of losing someone doesn't scare the shit out of you, then it's not love.

Penelope Ward

#39. What fear do you have? You, yourself are the absolute Self! If absolute-Self becomes fearful, then the whole universe will have fear! 'We' are on the other side of the prakruti [relative self's world].

Dada Bhagwan

#40. If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.

Shannon L. Alder

#41. He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.

Marcus Aurelius

#42. 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

#43. No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

Thomas More

#44. I love you, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. There is nothing I would not do for you. Nothing I would not consider if it meant keeping you safe. The world itself should fear me if it stands between us.

Renee Ahdieh

#45. Call it anything else if you will - fear, anxiety, nervousness, sweating
- but "shyness" is the historic word for it.

Richard N. Bolles

#46. If I had only known then how you make it easy to conquer fear, the paralyzing fear of an audience, I wouldn't have lost these past five years." The man who spoke these revealing

Dale Carnegie

#47. Everything in life will attack you if it senses your fear; animals, people - but faithful confidence wards off all manner of evil.

Bryant McGill

#48. Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, "All right, it's just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is".

Mitch Albom

#49. If you're trying to write about very strong horror, very strong fear or very strong emotion, it's easy to overwrite it.

Linda Sue Park

#50. It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind.

Mike Tyson

#51. If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can happen to you.

Margaret Bourke-White

#52. What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.

Wayne Dyer

#53. If you are in business trying to make it, things are falling apart and you can't get it together and you don't know what is going on and you wanna stop. Don't stop. The only way you can make it and have true success in your life. And there's one way. You can't have any fear.

Tyler Perry

#54. Sometimes, if she was afraid, she'd take all her fear and gather it up and turn it into anger. Anger didn't paralyze the way fear did. It was the opposite of being helpless. But it was dangerous too, because you could end up being angry all the time.

Dan Krokos

#55. If I've learned anything from my past and my present, it's the power of fear. You can give your subjects all the generosity in the world, and still they will demand more. But those who are afraid don't fight back. I know this well enough.

Marie Lu

#56. If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Chin-Ning Chu

#57. A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#58. Fear is only the enemy if you let it keep you from moving forward.

Put fear on your side and let it motivate you.

This is the definition of an alchemist. To turn base metal into gold. Fear into Motivation.

Matthew Donnelly

#59. If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.

Iyanla Vanzant

#60. When you move so quickly from innocence to a world of fear, pain and loss, it's as if the flesh of your heart and mind gets cut away, piece by piece, like slices taken off a ham. Finally, there is nothing left but bone.

Leymah Gbowee

#61. If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

Marco Pierre White

#62. If the worst happens, if you lose and fail, but you still celebrate coming second because you've given it a red hot go. There is no need to fear failure.

Anh Do

#63. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#64. Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do.

Pearl S. Buck

#65. If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You are moving out into life rather than contracting and withdrawing.

Nathaniel Branden

#66. True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we're fighting - actively fighting something else. But if you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.

Lupe Fiasco

#67. You just do it, then if you die, you die.

T. Scott McLeod

#68. Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them.

Stacy London

#69. Look for small victories and build on that. Each small victory, even if it is just getting up five minutes earlier, gives you confidence. You realize that these little victories make you feel great, and you keep going. You realize that being paralyzed by fear of failure is worse than failure.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#70. The truth is: If you knew you could handle anything that came your way, what would you have to fear. The answer is: NOTHING!

Susan Jeffers

#71. If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Jimmy Carter

#72. If every day you are not paying the
price to make your dreams come true,
then your everyday is a price that you
are paying to stop your dreams
coming true.

Moffat Machingura

#73. If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#74. I wished I could have seen who was talking. If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that could be anything, it is easier.

Neil Gaiman

#75. i am so crammed
full of fears
that if you were
to touch me
i might either
fly
or break.

Sanober Khan

#76. You're powerful, Clara. Or you could be, if you would let go of your fear long enough to realize it.

Claire Legrand

#77. If you're not prepared, it's not pressure you feel, it's fear.

Bruce Bochy

#78. One remedy for the fear of not being loved is to remember how good it feels to love someone. If you're feeling unloved and you want to feel better, go love someone, and see what happens.

Dossie Easton

#79. I'm getting rather hoarse, I fear,
After so much reciting:
So, if you don't object, my dear,
We'll try a glass of bitter beer -
I think it looks inviting.

Lewis Carroll

#80. Grumbling incoherently, I fished in my jacket pocket for sunglasses. "Fear not, night dweller," Niko said with mocking gravity. "It is merely the sun, something you would see more often if you would roll out of bed before late afternoon.

Rob Thurman

#81. Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.

Jim Butcher

#82. Goddamn it; speak your mind whether the truth will hurt, feel deeply regardless of the pain you fear, do accordingly in seek of your dreams whilst including the uphill struggles ... Life isn't a a fairytale but it is if you make it one.

Nikki Rowe

#83. You could have a lot of money at your fingertips, the finest education and intellectual knowledge, but if you are governed by fear none of that will matter. You will remain tied to dead ideas and stale strategies. You will not be able to adapt. You will lose what you have.

Robert Greene

#84. There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.

Hamza Yusuf

#85. Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts; and Caderousse began to sing the two last lines of a song very popular at the time, -

Alexandre Dumas

#86. If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.

Brian Tracy

#87. People fear what they do not understand, if they do not understand your greatness, they will fear how great you are
- Francois Gabbidon
#VisionToVenture

Francois Gabbidon

#88. If you really care about Charlotte, don't be afraid to tell her. Believe me, it will hurt her a lot more not hearing the words than it will hurt you to say them.

J.S. Goldstine

#89. It doesn't matter if I'm off the beat. It doesn't matter if I'm snapping to the rhythm. It doesn't matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance. It is my dance. It is my moment. It is mine. And dance I will. Try and stop me. You'll probably get kicked in the face.

Dan Pearce

#90. Takes its colours from the mind, my dear friend;" - he said - "If you discover evil suggestions in my music, the evil, I fear, must be in your own nature.

Marie Corelli

#91. You don't need to be so fierce and bluffing..
if you already know that I can't be intimidated.

Toba Beta

#92. What will life be like without her? I am dreadfully sad she is leaving. What if she just disappears; gets tired of all this trouble at home? What if she leaves me too? How heavy is a dresser when you're the only one pushing it against the door? I feel truly on my own.

Mira Bartok

#93. Let your heart lead you, do not be afraid, for there will be much to regret if reason and sense and fear are your only markers

Tara Conklin

#94. Everything is worse ... if you think something is looking at you.

Shirley Jackson

#95. You must not fear that clutching at your dreams will shatter them so they run through your fingers like sand. That way lies a life spent in yearning. But yearning is only a season of dreaming, for dreams, if nurtured, become strong.

Alexia Casale

#96. If you can write, paint, or compose without fear, pain, tears or questions, then you are either very blessed or very bland.

Duane Hewitt

#97. It's not bravery if you don't feel fear, right? If you're not afraid, then you're not really forcing yourself to do something brave.

Liz Braswell

#98. As an atheist you have to rationalize things ... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared
but that's okay!

Billy Joel

#99. You can be surrounded by people all the time, but you feel so alone. I think that's when you can lose perspective and lose control of what you're doing. It's almost as if you have no fear and you don't really care about what happens to yourself.

Ladyhawke

#100. Fear is like a 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. Fear is your friend and your worst enemy.

Sui Ishida