Fear Quotes And Sayings

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“Always use the proper names for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
– J. K. Rowling

“I am kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
– J.D. Salinger

“Fear is the parent of cruelty.”
– James Anthony Froude

“We are all of us failures–at least, the best of us are.”
– James Barrie

“That’s all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.”
– James M. Cain

“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”
– James Stephens

“Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.”
– Japanese Proverb

“Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.”
– Jerry Gille

“Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or psychological. When there is complete attention there is no fear. But the actual fact of inattention breeds fear; fear arises when there is an avoidance of the fact, a flight; then the very escape itself is fear.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Go back a little to leap further.”
– John Clarke

“We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.”
– John F. Kennedy

“I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best.”
– John Keats

“Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.”
– John Steinbeck

“Where ever fear shadows…. that always means there is a light shining somewhere.”
– Jonathan Santos

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
– Joseph Campbell

“Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.”
– Karl Augustus Menninger

“To fear is one thing.  To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. ”
– Katherine Paterson

“Fear will keep you alive; indifference won’t.”
– Laurell K. Hamilton

“You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.”
– Lee Child

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
– Les Brown

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
– Marie Curie

“Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I’m too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.”
– Martin Amis

“Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.”
– Mary Ferguson

“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”
– Mary Manin Morrissey

“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.”
– Mary Tyler Moore

“Somebody should tell us…right at the start of our lives…that we are dying. Then we might live to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.”
– Michael Landon

“You can’t stop being afraid just by pretending everything that scares you isn’t there.”
– Michael Marshall

“Living fearlessly is not the same thing as never being afraid. It’s good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.”
– Michael Ignatieff

“You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing the odds, but that’s only because you’re afraid to call it by its real name, and its real name is fear.”
– Mick Farren

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