Popular Quotes of Fear
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| S.No | Quotes | Author |
| 1 | It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| 2 | If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. | Sun Tzu |
| 3 | Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. | Salvador Dali |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. | Thomas Jefferson |
| 7 | We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. | Plato |
| 8 | Never be afraid to sit a while and think. | Lorraine Hansberry |
| 9 | Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom. | Marilyn Ferguson |
| 10 | Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. | Fernando Flores |
| 11 | I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them. | Clara Barton |
| 12 | There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. | Hunter S. Thompson |
| 13 | So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right. | Friedrich Durrenmatt |
| 14 | Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time. | Lou Brock |
| 15 | The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| 16 | Fear is excitement without breath. | Robert Heller |
| 17 | Do what you fear and fear disappears. | David Joseph Schwartz |
| 18 | Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there. | Chuck Palahniuk |
| 19 | I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway. | Taylor Swift |
| 20 | There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls. | Aeschylus |
| 21 | Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another’s fear. | Umberto Eco |
| 22 | We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond. | Zach Wamp |
| 23 | Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones. | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| 24 | I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. | Pierre Beaumarchais |
| 25 | Always do what you are afraid to do. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 26 | Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. | Dorothy Thompson |
| 27 | We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. | Christian Nestell Bovee |
| 28 | I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship. | Louisa May Alcott |
| 29 | Fear can be good when you’re walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it’s not good when you have a goal and you’re fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before. | Queen Latifah |
| 30 | Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. | John Cheever |
| 31 | Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. | W. Clement Stone |
| 32 | We are afraid of the enormity of the possible. | Emil Cioran |
| 33 | Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. | Charles Stanley |
| 34 | I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. | Thomas Paine |
| 35 | Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. | Cyril Connolly |
| 36 | I say I am stronger than fear. | Malala Yousafzai |
| 37 | To him who is in fear everything rustles. | Sophocles |
| 38 | Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. | Marianne Williamson |
| 39 | There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. | Baruch Spinoza |
| 40 | 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. | Jiddu Krishnamurti |
| 41 | We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. | Warren Buffett |
| 42 | What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good. | Maya Angelou |
| 43 | We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays. | Persius |
| 44 | I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve. | Montesquieu |
| 45 | This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won’t get it back later. | Laura Schlessinger |
| 46 | Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. | Miguel de Cervantes |
| 47 | Fear is the mother of foresight. | Thomas Hardy |
| 48 | Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. | Pliny the Elder |
| 49 | The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. | Stendhal |
| 50 | There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. | Andre Gide |
| 51 | Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. | John Dryden |
| 52 | A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. | John F. Kennedy |
| 53 | Fears are nothing more than a state of mind. | Napoleon Hill |
| 54 | Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. | Helen Keller |
| 55 | Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. | Francis Quarles |
| 56 | Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of. | Robert Benchley |
| 57 | True nobility is exempt from fear. | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| 58 | True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. | Paul Sweeney |
| 59 | Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future. | Audrey Hepburn |
| 60 | Don’t be afraid to see what you see. | Ronald Reagan |