Fear Quotes and Sayings

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
– Honoré de Balzac

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

I say I am stronger than fear.
– Malala Yousafzai

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

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

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
— John Green

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

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

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

When desire dies, fear is born.
– Baltasar Gracian

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