Fear - Quotes & Sayings

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Miles Davis

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

Emile M. Cioran

So about this Fierce and Fearless award, honestly, I am often afraid. I was terrified when I lost my voice. But I've come to understand and listen to the fear. I walk towards it. I lean into it to find the information and things that it has to teach me - unless it says run, and then I run.

Tracee Ellis Ross

When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is to not show the fear, and to ultimately overcome it so that the level of relaxation is commensurate with the level of tension.

Woody Harrelson

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

W. Edwards Deming

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

Hugh Jackman

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

Marilyn Manson

When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Wayne Rooney

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 active disengagement.

Ken Burns

I delight in what I fear.

Shirley Jackson

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.

Liza Minnelli

I think I'm attracted to subjects that I'm afraid of. It's a way to approach things I am afraid of, things that bring fear in my heart, and try to understand them, try to deal with them. It's like demons. I try to approach it and understand it... I'm just visiting fears.

Denis Villeneuve

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

Harry Browne

I trained for months to figure out how to ride a motorcycle. I have kind of a major fear of them. I have a major fear of going at fast speeds without any kind of protection, no helmet, an actor on the back with no helmet. I felt very afraid to do it. I love that I did it and overcame the fear and was able to do that.

Carrie-Anne Moss

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

Dorothy Thompson

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.

Nick Harkaway

It's okay to have fear - we're all human; it happens - but in facing your fears, you can really open yourself up to things you never thought possible.

Katherine McNamara

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

Edward Albert

For me, every single thing I do seems to be about the process of letting go because that's what I so desperately need to do with so many things: with fear, with what people think of me, and all these things I've worried about my whole life.

John Grant

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Persius

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

Fulton Oursler

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Lou Brock

There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

Ben Stiller

The key to change... is to let go of fear.

Rosanne Cash

I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.

William Whipple

There's a reason why anger, fear, and hatred are paths to the dark side: they all spring from a single source - the same source as a certain flavor of love. A dangerously sweet, addictive flavor.

Matthew Stover

Fear is there. Anything can happen at an Olympics. I want to use the experience I gained from Athens and Beijing - the fear, too - and build a me that can't lose. I will do everything to make sure I win a third gold medal in London. That target drives me. I'm bulking up and have more power now. I'll be fighting fit to take the gold back home.

Saori Yoshida

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Elbert Hubbard

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Virgil

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

Margaret Mead

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

Kendrick Lamar

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Miguel de Cervantes

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

Dolly Parton

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

Dolly Parton

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Michel de Montaigne

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Horace

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

John Mayer

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

Mel Brooks

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Joan Didion

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Francis Bacon

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

Conan O'Brien

I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.

Florence Welch

Life is a miracle, and we need to not fear trying to achieve our potential and reveal the remarkable creation we and all living things are and that our Creator has built into us the ability to induce self-healing.

Bernie Siegel

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

Black Elk

I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

John Lydon

I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross