Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Fear.
Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
Theodore Bikel
I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
Nadia Comaneci
If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.
Tori Amos
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
Warren Farrell
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
Fred Allen
The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.
Jean Bryant
It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.
Ernest Hemingway
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
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
Edward Albert
We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.
Emmanuelle Beart
Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein
That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.
Steve Irwin
A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.
Mary Schmich
There is always danger for those who are afraid.
George Bernard Shaw
A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.
English Proverb
