
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.Rabindranath Tagore
These 77 quotes on fear come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.Rabindranath Tagore

Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.Chanakya

Why fear when I am here?Shirdi Sai Baba

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.Sun Tzu

It is not power that corrupts but fear.Aung San Suu Kyi

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.Aung San Suu Kyi

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.Mary Shelley

It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live.Victor Hugo

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.Fyodor Dostoevsky

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.Mark Twain

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.Barack Obama

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.Nelson Mandela

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.Nelson Mandela

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.Eleanor Roosevelt

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.Paulo Coelho

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.Wole Soyinka

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.Seneca

Tears and fears and feeling proud, to say 'I love you' right out loud.Joni Mitchell

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.Naguib Mahfouz

Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things pass away; God never changes.Teresa of Ávila

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.Bruce Lee

Have no fear of perfection — you'll never reach it.Salvador Dalí

O God, if I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise.Rabia al-Adawiyya

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.Thich Nhat Hanh

I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.Nikos Kazantzakis

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
What you fear is that which requires action to overcome.Byron Pulsifer
Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.Usman Asif
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.Napoleon Hill
I'm not afraid of storms, for Im learning how to sail my ship.Louisa Alcott
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.H. Jackson Browne
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.Leon Blum
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.William Shakespeare
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.Mary Morrissey
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.Walter Anderson
Fear grows in darkness; if you think theres a bogeyman around, turn on the light.Dorothy Thompson
Fear of failure is one attitude that will keep you at the same point in your life.Byron Pulsifer
The greatest antidote to insecurity and the sense of fear is compassion — it brings one back to the basis of one's inner strengthDalai Lama
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.Dorothy Thompson
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.Napoleon Bonaparte
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.Richard Bach
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.William White
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.Eriksson
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.Percy Shelley
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.Will Durant
Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear.Pat Riley
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.Walter Benjamin
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great…David Rockefeller
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?Confucius
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.Richard Bach
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.Henry Ford
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.Audre Lorde
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.Jane Addams
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.Elbert Hubbard
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.Hafiz
The boat never crosses if it fears the waves; those who keep trying never truly lose.Harivansh Rai Bachchan
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights', with all its…Queen Victoria
I am not afraid; I was born to do this.Joan of Arc
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.Rosa Parks
Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.Warren Buffett
I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.Serena Williams
Don't be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.Dwayne Johnson

Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard. When making a mistake, do not be afraid to correct it.Confucius

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person — 'Always do what you are afraid to do.'Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.Rabindranath Tagore

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high.Rabindranath Tagore

Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.John Lewis

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare

Nothing is more frightful than ignorance in action.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.Rabindranath Tagore

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.Seneca

It is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.Epictetus

He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a living man.Seneca

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.Mark Twain

Life begins where fear ends.Osho