What Is Fear Quotes

Courage, my child, is not the absence of fear. It's the triumph over fear. — Wynne Channing

Without fear I go now to God. Your future is what you will choose today. — Malachi Ritscher

All fear comes from trying to see the future, Biff. If you know what is coming, you aren't afraid. — Christopher Moore

Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear. — James L. Farmer Jr.

You fear me, because you don't know what I am. I look like a woman, I sound like a man, and your reason tells you the sum total is impossible! — Anonymous

This is what dating is like, I thought, this horrible mix of boredom and fear and humiliation and confusion. — Diane Meier

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. — Julia Child

And what is fear of need but need itself? — Kahlil Gibran

The worst thing about fear is what it does to you when you try to hide it. — Nicholas Christopher

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart. — Sonia Johnson

We lose the fear of letting go of our baggage, but also the certainty that what is in them belongs to us. — Andres Neuman

What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none. — Anne Rice

A Course in Miracles says that only love is real: The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite. — Marianne Williamson

Belief and faith have nothing to do with each other. Beliefs are the manifestation of fear whereas faith comes from courage. — Debasish Mridha

Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition. — Dorothee Solle

What you create doesn't have to be perfect. So what if the eggs are greasy or the toast is burned? Don't let fear of failure discourage you. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash. — Jay McInerney

What makes us human is not the recognition of fear but the ability to overcome it. — Kevin Colovos

We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for. — Sebastian Horsley

An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen. — Method Man

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok? — Thomas Sowell

Boredom ... what is this foreign word you speak of, General? I fear I know nothing of it. Ash — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fear. — Susana Martinez

When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear. — Quintus Curtius Rufus

All the fear in the world is not going to change anything, only rob me of what little I have. — Anne Perry

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear. — Dan Millman

What flying teaches you is to overcome fear with knowledge. — Oliver Smithies

He's not afraid of anyone, m'lord."
"He should be. Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world of treachery and deceit. — George R R Martin

What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise... — J.K. Rowling

I fear it is my lot, to bide my days in hunchbacked thought, to find what I forgot. — Roman Payne

What if the only thing that's standing between us right now is our fear? — Jessica Verdi

What is fear of need but need itself? — Kahlil Gibran

It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius

The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out? — Margaret Atwood

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful. — Jack Kornfield

Fundamentally, what all forms of positive thinking about collapse come down to is our own fear of death. — Carolyn Baker

I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited. — Elisa Albert

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage. — Rosie Thomas

Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure — Epicurus

I think my biggest fear is dying. Although sometimes my biggest fear is not dying. But yeah, I think health stuff for me is more what I'm afraid of. — Kathleen Hanna

As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it. — Tom Stoppard

What I usually do is hoard money - I accumulate as much as possible in the fear of not having enough to pay tax. — Mark Billingham

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of. — Rhys Ifans

This is what it means to believe in ascension and fear climbing. — Terrance Hayes

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'
What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing — Don DeLillo

What you imagine as overwhelming or terrifying while at leisure becomes something you can cope with when you must-there is no time for fear. — Rebecca Solnit

Success is doing what it takes in spite of one's fear. — Johnny Rutherford

At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful. — Mark Z. Danielewski

What is fear but darkness — Geoffrey Storm

We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

what you suffer when you stay in fear is almost always more damaging than facing your fear. — Mo Gawdat

The truth is: If you knew you could handle anything that came your way, what would you have to fear. The answer is: NOTHING! — Susan Jeffers

Women need to do more. We need to find out what it is we're afraid of, and go beyond. — Colette Dowling

Who you are - and what you have - today, is a reflection of how fearful or fearless you were yesterday. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you. — Swami Vivekananda

I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America. — Nelson DeMille

Fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes — Viktor E. Frankl

Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day. — Lauren Fleshman

There are those who will oppress you for fear you might learn what it is to be free — Taj Shotwell

Today we no longer fear technology. It's no longer a question of assimilation. What remains to be seen is what we are about to become. — Jason Heller

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free. — Oprah Winfrey

Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable. — Alex Rodriguez

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own? — John Searles

What is courage without fear? — Emily R. King

HEB13.6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. — Anonymous

Do not fear what the setting sun may bring. Where there is a setting sun, there is also a rising one. — Renee Ahdieh

The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think. — David Icke

Every hero is scared. That-s what being brave is about - confronting fear. — Nely Cab

Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave. — Martha Beck

Whatever it is I'm born to do, my fear of failing at it has almost become greater than my desire to figure out what it is. — Ann Kidd Taylor

What others fear becomes our wilderness of fear. O, it is endless! — Lao-Tzu

You have to do what you fear, otherwise fear is in charge. — Glenn Ford

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact. — J. William Fulbright

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you. — Linda Ronstadt

Remember, the goal is to take emotion out of investing because emotion is what so often destroys investing success, whether it's greed or fear. — Anthony Robbins

What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law. — Shirley Hazzard

Fear is to the mind what sickness is to the body. — Marty Rubin

I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do. — C.J. Cherryh

Liberty is the act of making the Government Fear
what you KNOW! — Faith Brashear

If God is your world, what have you to fear? — Emma Curtis Hopkins

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Peace made him bold; his life was in God's hands, and there it would always stay. 'The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me? — C.R. Hedgcock

What I fear in writing is the safe decision. — Anne Rice

Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love. — Yasmin Mogahed

Writing this book is not just me encouraging others to lean in. This is me leaning in. Writing this book is what I would do if I weren't afraid. — Sheryl Sandberg

Love is not what you fear, is it? You fear the loss of it. — Malinda Lo

When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong. — Tara Brach

What you fear most of all is - fear" - Remus Lupin — J.K. Rowling

I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death. — Terry Pratchett

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning. — Anne Carson

The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear. — Jewel

Politeness is often fear. Kindness is always courage. But caring is what makes you human. Care more, become more human. — Matt Haig

The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid. — Doris Lessing

Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death. — William Shakespeare

What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain. — Jo Nesbo

The only thing that stops the fear of doing something is DOING WHAT YOU FEAR — Steven Aitchison

What if i fail?" ... the more profound question is, "what if i never fail?" "Stop making excuses and start managing your fear. — David Meerman Scott

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors. — John Kennedy Toole

Their greatest fear is you may step forward without fear.
Because your courage may become contagious. — Tom Althouse