Quotes about Fear

“Great fear is concealed under daring.”

“What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.”

“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.”

“I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.”

“We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.”

“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.”

“Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.”

“We must travel in the direction of our fear.”

“I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.”

“Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'”

“Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.”

“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.”

“Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.”

“Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.”

“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.”

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

“A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.”

“The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.”

“Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.”

“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”

“Fear follows crime and is its punishment.”