Quotes about Fear

“I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.”

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

“My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.”

“Fear is something I try not to absorb.”

“We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.”

“Feel the fear, and do it anyway. That's the mentality. Even if you're scared, just do it.”

“Even death doesn't worry me, man. When my mother died it was because she finished her time on earth. I know that when I die I'll see her again, so how can I fear death?”

“I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.”

“My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.”

“The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.”

“I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.”

“Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.”

“The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.”

“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.”

“Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.”

“While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.”

“Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.”

“I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.”

“If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.”

“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.”

“Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.”