Fear Quotes

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

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

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Everyone's frightened. It's how you deal with that fear. It's very, very powerful. And what you've got to do is get it as a tailwind instead of a headwind. And that's a little bit of a judo trick in your mind. And once you learn that, fear starts to excite you. Because you know that you are going to enter into something and try it and risk.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with: it is the mother of the thing you fear.

The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active - in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

Bravery is not the absence of fear, it is overcoming it.

By climbing mountains we were not learning how big we were. We were finding out how breakable, how weak and how full of fear we are.

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.

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

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.