Fear Quotes

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of width.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Bruce Lee

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

I am incredibly happy. I may well be the luckiest man alive. To be so in love with someone who is so perfect for me. It's just hard to imagine that I'm not going to wake up.
Kenny Chesney

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.
Marilyn Manson

To me faith means not worrying.
John Dewey

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie

I've never been afraid to fail.
Michael Jordan

You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
William Faulkner

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
Alfred Hitchcock

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
Alfred Hitchcock

If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But-and I am only saying this because I care-there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
Val Kilmer

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Clint Eastwood

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
B. C. Forbes

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
Jack Nicholson

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Al Capone

I have always been afraid of banks.

Big Brother is watching you.
George Orwell

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.
Herodotus

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead .
John H. Johnson

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
Marquis de Sade

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
James Allen

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to hold my breath, because I know i'm going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping.
Hulk Hogan

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Herman Melville

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Dylan Thomas

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Elizabeth Taylor

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Jane Austen

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.
Elizabeth Taylor

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
F. H. Bradley

I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
Galileo Galilei

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
Ralph Ellison

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Ray Bradbury

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
A. J. P. Taylor