Quotes about Fear

"I have build my organization upon fear."
-- Al Capone

"Never take counsel of your fears."
-- Andrew Jackson

"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."
-- Bertrand Russell

"Fear is the biggest motivator."
-- Bill Dixon

"A fighter has to know fear."
-- Cus DAmato

"He without fear is king of the world."
-- E. E. Eddison

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
-- Edmund Burke

"To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity."
-- Edward Weeks

"Less base the fear of death than fear of life."
-- Edward Young

"It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death."
-- Epictetus

"Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something."
-- Frederick Smith

"Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin."
-- Grace Hansen

"Fear is the parent of cruelty."
-- J. A. Froude

"Fear is met and destroyed with courage."
-- James F. Bell

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

"The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process."
-- Jean Bryant

"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances."
-- Julia Sorel

"Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be."
-- Lucius C. Lactantius

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

"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."
-- Miguel De Cervantes

"You can't underestimate the power of fear."
-- Patricia Nixon

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

"Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Where the fear is, happiness is not."
-- Seneca

"Feel the fear and do it anyway."
-- Susan Jeffers

"Fear is caused by our insistent clinging to the false self. As we become conscious of this, our fears fade fast."
-- Vernon Howard

"Fear may come true that which one is afraid of."
-- Viktor E. Frankl

"Fear is proof of a degenerate mind."
-- Virgil

"In time we hate that which we often fear."
-- William Shakespeare