Fear Quotes

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

E. M. Cioran

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

Orison Swett Marden

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

Paulo Coelho

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Samuel Ullman

Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.

Kenny Rogers

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

Dean Koontz

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.

Joyce Maynard

Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.

R. L. Stine

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

George Eliot

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Babe Ruth

When desire dies, fear is born.

Baltasar Gracian

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Jean de La Fontaine

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.

Natan Sharansky

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

Taylor Swift

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

G. K. Chesterton

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

Greg Kinnear

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

Tertullian

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Roger Caras