Top 40 Fear Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “F-E-A-R has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.”

— Zig Ziglar

2. “Being scared is part of being alive. Accept it. Walk through it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

3. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.”

— Dale Carnegie

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4. “Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.”

— Tony Robbins

5. “If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.”

— Tim Ferriss

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6. “He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. “The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.”

— Brian Tracy

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8. “A decision made from fear is always the wrong decision.”

— Tony Robbins

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9. “Fear is your friend. It is an indicator. Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn’t do, more often than not it shows you what you should do.”

— Tim Ferriss

10. “Shatter all your fear.”

— Robin S. Sharma

11. “The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.”

— Brian Tracy

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12. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”

— Francis Chan

13. “Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up.”

— Veronica Roth

14. “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”

— C.G. Jung

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15. “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

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16. “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”

— John F. Kennedy

17. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

18. “Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.”

— Dale Carnegie

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19. “Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.”

— Marianne Williamson

20. “I failed my way to success.”

— Thomas A. Edison

21. “Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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22. “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

— Bertrand Russell

23. “One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”

— Abraham Maslow

24. “I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.”

— Warren Buffett

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25. “I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”

— Rumi

26. “Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

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27. “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

— George Lucas

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28. “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

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29. “The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.”

— William James

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30. “If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.”

— Dale Carnegie

31. “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

32. “But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

— Ernest Hemingway

33. “Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.”

— Tecumseh

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34. “Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.”

— Immanuel Kant

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35. “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.”

— Warren Buffett

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36. “Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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37. “Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.”

— Ram Dass

38. “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”

— Bertrand Russell

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39. “Religion is the opium of the masses.”

— Karl Marx

40. “The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.”

— Kohta Hirano

41. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

— Suzy Kassem

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42. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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