Fear Quotes | Sayings on Facing Fear | Wisdom in Fear

I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith and now I’m marrying my dreams.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.
– Stephen King

Don’t let the fear of striking out keep you away from playing the game.

Always chase your dreams instead of running from your fears.

Cheat on your fears, break up with doubts, engage to faith and marry your dreams.

Fear is temporary, regret is forever.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
– Nelson Mandela

Risk everything, fear nothing, have no regrets.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.
– Siri Hustvedt

Fear is a spirit that keeps you sitting, Boldness helps you to stand. Humility reminds us when to sit again, Pride never sits only stands.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world; there is nothing enlightened about shrinking yourself so that others will not feel insecure about you.

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

The only things you give yourself when you cheat are fear and guilt.

Do one thing every day that scares you.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

Respect Everyone, Fear No one.
– Roger Federer

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
– Plato

No one is afraid of heights, they are afraid of the fall.
No one is afraid to play, they are afraid to lose.
No one is afraid of the dark, they are afraid of what’s in it.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
– Eric Hoffer

Always do what you are afraid to do.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

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

Things that are burying your dreams:
1. Not taking the risk
2. Fear of failure
3. Comfort zone

Keep your goals in front of you and your fears behind you.

Fear and faith are the same thing, the only difference is that fear is faith in the wrong direction.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
– Abu Bakr

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. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
– Marianne Williams

Only the strongest of men can admit fear and uncertainty and still be looked upon as the strongest.

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
– Albert Einstein

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.
– Aristotle

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

“Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?”
“That is the only time a man can be brave.”
– George R.R. Martin

Worry looks around, fear looks back, faith looks up, guilt looks down, but I look forward.

We were scared, but our fear was not as strong as our courage.
– Malala Yousafzai

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
– Honore de Balzac

Get the facts first, THEN panic.

If fear is cultivated, it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated, it will achieve mastery.
– John Paul Jones

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
– Bertrand Russell

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
– Katherine Paterson

Fear is the mother of morality.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. Don’t let this happen to you!

Stop letting fear rule your life!!!
Your largest fear carries your greatest growth.

Keep your fears to yourself; share your courage with others.
– Robert Louis Stevenson

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
– Napoleon Bonaparte

He who fears something gives it power over him.
– Moorish Proverb

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.
– William Shakespeare

Fear cannot survive if your heart is full of love and confidence.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

No one loves the man whom he fears.
– Aristotle

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.
– Napoleon Hill

Take every chance. Drop every fear.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
– Jim Morrison

You see what power is – holding someone Else fear in your hand and showing it to them.
– Amy Tan

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
– William S. Burroughs

They can’t scare me, if I scare them first.
– Lady Gaga

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
– Mary Manin Morrissey

In time we hate that which we often fear.
– William Shakespeare

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
– Francis Bacon, Sr.

Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.
– James Hastings

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
– Dale Carnegie

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
– Dale Carnegie

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
– Elbert Hubbard

Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
– Andre Gide

Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.
– Ruth Gendler

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
– Marie Curie

The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.
– Jewel Kilcher

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
– Arthur Ashe

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.

When you find the things that scare you most, run towards them.

Being scared to do something, and doing it anyways is what makes you strong.

It’s your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.
– Anupam Kher

Worry and fear cannot conquer you if you are full of confidence and courage!
– Dr T.P.Chia

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.
– John Randolph

Anything I’ve done that was ultimately worthwhile initially scared me to death.
– Betty Bender

Fear always springs from ignorance.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

F.E.A.R = Face Everything And Recover

Fear knocked at the door, courage opened it and lo, there was nothing there.

Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real but fear is a choice.
– Will Smith

A life lived in fear, is a life half lived.

Face your fears, endure its pain and they will be re-written in the form of pride and dreams.
– Greg Plitt

Your courage to do what’s right has to be greater than your fear of getting hurt.
– Hasan Minhaj

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
– Shirley MacLaine

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
– William Shakespeare

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
– Arnold H. Glasgow

Take risks and conquer your fears.

Fear cuts deeper than swords.
– George R.R. Martin

You can only get smarter and stronger by facing your imagined fears.

The opposite of fear is love, when you learn to love.
Fear will forget you.

To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but fear stands there and points you in the direction of things that are important. Don’t be afraid of your fears, they’re not there to scare you; they’re there to let you know that something is worth it.
– C. JoyBell C.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
– George Eliot

For once you taste failure, you have no fear. You can take risks more easily. Then You don’t want to snuggle in your comfort zone anymore-you are ready to fly.
– Chetan Bhagat

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.
– Virgil Thomson

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.
– Alfred Hitchcock

Don’t run away from fear. Face it because fear always has a way to get you.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
– C.S. Lewis

Life begins where fear ends.
– Osho

I over analyze situations because I’m scared of what will happen if I’m not prepared for it

Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, & how to be free from it, that’s the point. Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
– Francis Quarles

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
– George S. Patton

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Face your fears or forever be afraid.

A head full of fears has no space for dreams.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
– T.S. Eliot

Fear breeds fear.

Man’s greatest obsession is his greatest fear.

Fear is nothing more than lack of faith.

Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up.
– Veronica Roth

God is bigger than your biggest fear.

Your mind is your prison when you focus on your fear.
– Tim Fargo

F.E.A.R. Is an abbreviated word,
False
Evidence
Appearing
Real.
Fear is a dream just forget it cos it won’t come into reality.

Fear God and you don’t have to fear anything else.

How frequently do your thoughts include fear, judgment or simply justify your point of view?
– Jack Kornfield

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
– Paulo Coelho

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
– Rosa Parks

I used to worry about my fears, but I realized that most of the time nothing bad happened. So I have stopped worrying.
– RVM

Fear, anger, and hatred essentially come from a lack of perspective as to what life is all about.
– Sadhguru

The brave one is not the one who has no fear, but the one who fights even though he is scared.

If we hold a space for our partners to express themselves without the fear of abandonment, we’ve taken a HUGE step towards cultivating Love in our relationships.

Why is that you’re too scared to tell me something in my face but brave enough to tell everyone?
– Tanya

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful.
– Warren Buffett

Fear will make you overestimate the enemy and act too defensively.
– Robert Greene

The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.
– Brene Brown

The word ‘fear’ means:
F – false
E – evidence
A – appearing
R – real

Don’t give into your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.
– Paulo Coelho

You either move toward something you love or away from something you fear. The first expands. The second constricts.

Don’t allow your fears to take control of you, take charge of who you are.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t.
– Lemony Snicket

Fate loves the fearless.
– James Russell Lowell

I do not have any fears, no fear of dying, of failure, of anything; that means I am very dangerous for my opponents.
– Imran Khan

A coward dies a thousand deaths, A brave man only one.

Don’t let fear rule your life.

I feared before I knew, but now that I know, to fear is as childish as being feared.

I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
– Marcus Aurelius

As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.
– William Shakespeare

Nothing in this life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.
– Eric Wright

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?
– Bill Gates

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry – all forms of fear – are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.
– Eckhart Tolle

Courage is taking the first step, when you don’t see the whole staircase.

The weak’s biggest fear is not that they can’t do it. It’s being too afraid to hope that they can.

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby.

If you keep your face towards the sun you need not to fear from shadows.

Whatever you fear most has no power – it is your fear that has the power.
– Oprah Winfrey

Make no mistake there is nothing wrong with fear. The only mistake is to let it stop you in your tracks.

It’s better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.
– Michael Crichton

Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind- compassion opens it.
– Dalai Lama

Don’t let your fears become boxes that enclose you. Open them out, feel them, and turn them into the greatest courage you are capable of.
– Shah Rukh Khan

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
– Mignon McLaughlin

The worst of all fears is the fear of living
– Theodore Roosevelt

We can’t stop here, this is bat country!
– Hunter S. Thompson

Courage is not the absence of fear but the strength to conquer it.

I’m fearless, I don’t complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on.
– Sofia Vergara

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.
– Malala Yousafzai

Your hope of winning must be bigger than your fear of loosing if you are to win in life.

Sometimes you have to smile to hide your fears and laugh to hide you tears.

We should never negotiate out of fear, but we should never fear to negotiate.
– John F. Kennedy

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Don’t lose yourself in your fear.

Better be a lion one day than be a sheep all your life.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Fear is just a feeling, fear can never kill you.

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
– Arthur Somers Roche

Fear is only as powerful as you allow it to be.

I say I am stronger than fear.
– Malala Yousafzai

If you listen to your fear, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.
– Sadhguru

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
– J. K. Rowling

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

Run after your fears. Chase them. Make them shake. And dread the day you gained enough confidence to realize they were full of shit.
– Thibaut

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it. I’m saying, I’m the proof that you can ask the universe for it.
– Jim Carrey

What kills us isn’t one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can’t turn down for fear of disappointing others.
– Alain de Botton

Fear is only in our minds taking over all the time.

You cannot put yours and yourself in danger just to overcome your fear.
– Ravish Kumar

The innermost secrets you should confide to your mother and your fears to your father. I have neither, so I end up confiding it to my acting.
– Shah Rukh Khan

Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.
– Roy Bennett

Ignorance is the parent of fear.
– Herman Melville

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
– Robert H. Schuller

Fear isn’t so difficult to understand. After all, weren’t we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It’s just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
– Alfred Hitchcock

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.
– Jim Carrey

What I fear is being in the presence of evil and doing nothing. I fear that more than death.
– Otilia De Koster

When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.
– Stephen Richards

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
– Jim Morrison

“Only fear the known” in other words only fear what you know is real and what is right in front of you if not no energy needs wasting.

Worry and fear limit every man’s prosperity.

Turn around. There, you just faced fear.

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
– Alexandre Dumas

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
– Queen Elizabeth II

Fear nothing, for a world with fear is a world without wisdom.

It takes courage to to choose hope over fear.
– Mark Zuckerberg

Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.
– Jean de La Fontaine

Fear, is letting your inner demons win.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
– Honore de Balzac

It kills me sometimes, how people die.
– Markus Zusak

Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
– Veronica Roth

Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.
– Idowu Koyenikan

Fear is an old enemy. Don’t take it for a lovely person.

A warrior does not lose a battle because he has too many enemies, but because he has too many fears and doubts in his heart that he might not win.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
– Plato

When you really think about it, fear is only a part of our imagination. Don’t let it be real.

In my time I have come to see, nothing kills as faster as fear.

Without fear courage is meaningless.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
– Sophocles

There’s an old German proverb to the effect that “fear makes the wolf bigger than he is,” and that is true.
– Donald Trump

Fear and doubt are major stampeders.
– Karen Marie Moning

Doing what you have to do doesn’t necessary mean you fear what you don’t have to do.

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.
– Jim Carrey

Fear makes you grow the best.

Thoughts, words, emotions & deeds not coming from love are likely coming from fear.
– Allan Lokos

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Write down everything you fear in life.
Burn it.
Pour herbal oil with a sweet scent on the ashes.
– Yoko Ono

Do not be afraid to do, for everything you will ever do has already been done before.

Fearless=Bravery=Freedom

The best way to prosperity, is to face your greatest fear.

If you live in fear, success will disappear.
– RVM

Fear paralyses you – fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.
– Annie Lennox

Be aware, never afraid.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
– Deepak Chopra

Defeat your fears and you can never be defeated.
– Jeffrey Fry

It’s not the thing itself we fear, it’s our reaction to it.

Fear is all negative messages we received in childhood.

Nobody goes through life without having fears.

Courage is in Everybody. But so is Fear.

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom.
– Clarence Darrow

The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.
– Horace

Action eliminates fear. Headphone up and get sh*t done.
– Tom Bilyeu

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
– Richard Bach

Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.
– Veronica Roth

We normally gain most of what we wish for after we lose our fears.
– Sipho P Nkosi

Limitations are fear, and often like illusions.

Never fear failures and disappointments. They help you discover your real strength.
– Dr Roopleen

Limitation start with fear and end with regrets.

When desire dies, fear is born.
– Baltasar Gracian

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
– Charles Caleb Colton

You are in control of your OCD. No Fear = No OCD.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
– Voltaire

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