Fear Quotes

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

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

Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Boredom is the fear of self.

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

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

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.