Fear Quotes

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
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
Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.
Chanakya
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. — Sun Tzu
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from 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
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
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mary Shelley
It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live. — Victor Hugo
It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live.
Victor Hugo
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. — Mark Twain
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
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
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Nelson Mandela
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. — Eleanor 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
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
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
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
Tears and fears and feeling proud, to say 'I love you' right out loud.
Joni Mitchell
Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things pass away; God never changes. — Teresa of Ávila
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. — John Lewis
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
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. — Seneca
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
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
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
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
Life begins where fear ends.
Osho
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