Explore Quotes on Fear

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

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy.

Giving up is the only sure way to fail.

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's an active disengagement.

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.

Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence. (29)