Quotes & Sayings

63 Powerful Sayings About Fear

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7 years ago

January 11, 2018

Fear keep us away from trying new things and also stop us from reaching our full potential. Everyone of us fear of something without knowing it. We need to stop fearing to live life fully.

In this post, we have gathered a list of 63 powerful sayings about fear from variety of sources.

See what wise minds from all around the world have said about fear. It will help you to overcome any kind of fear and live life happily and confidently.

Contents

Sayings About Fear
Short Sayings About Fear

Top 10 Fear Sayings

Table of Contents

Sayings About Fear

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. -Brian Tracy

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division. -Jesse Jackson

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you’ll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness. -Sharon Salzberg

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. -George Washington Carver

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. -H. P. Lovecraft

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror! -Joyce Meyer

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. -Nelson Mandela

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind. -Dale Carnegie

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure. -Paulo Coelho

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ -Eleanor Roosevelt

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. -Zig Ziglar

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. -Marianne Williamson

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation. -Vannevar Bush

Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them. -Stacy London

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. -Louis E. Boone

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. -Dale Carnegie

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. -H. P. Lovecraft

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

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

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. -John Paul Jones

Failure isn’t an option. I’ve erased the word ‘fear’ from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can’t fail. -Alicia Keys

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. -Aung San Suu Kyi

Short Sayings About Fear

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one. -Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Fear is stupid. So are regrets. -Marilyn Monroe

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace. -Nelson Mandela

Fear is the highest fence. -Dudley Nichols

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it. -Chanakya

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him. -Saint Teresa of Avila

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. -Babe Ruth

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. -Lord Byron

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind. -Napoleon Hill

I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear! -Nina Simone

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. -William Shakespeare

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. -W. Clement Stone

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. -Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action. -Stephen Bannon

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. -Paul Sweeney

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway. -Tamara Mellon

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. -Joseph Chilton Pearce

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. -Albert Camus

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -James Stephens

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

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. -J. K. Rowling

Always do what you are afraid to do. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who own much have much to fear. -Rabindranath Tagore

You don’t know what bravery is until you overcome fear. -Kurt Elling

Fear the vulture, and the vulture will come. Fear nothing, and you are the vulture. -Suzy Kassem

If you flee from the things you fear, there’s no resolution. -Chuck Palahniuk

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don’t believe in fear – I live my life without regrets. -Sean Combs

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. -Richard Bach

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. -Marcus Aurelius

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. -Salvador Dali

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear. -Sammy Davis, Jr.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. -Bertrand Russell

Courage is knowing what not to fear. -Plato

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. -Bill Cosby

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard. -Leonardo da Vinci

Top 10 Fear Sayings

Always do what you are afraid to do. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. -Brian Tracy
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind. -Dale Carnegie
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation. -Vannevar Bush
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. -Dale Carnegie

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. -Babe Ruth
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it. -Chanakya
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one. -Rainer Maria Rilke