Top 100 Fear Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.”

— George R.R. Martin

52. “The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.”

— Nelson Mandela

53. “Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.”

— Paulo Coelho

54. “The key to change is to let go of fear.”

— Rosanne Cash

55. “If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

56. “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.”

— Frank Herbert

57. “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”

— Stephen Hawking

58. “I’m motivated by fear. Fear of fear. I hate being scared to do something. And I think what developed in my early days was the attitude that I started attacking things that I was scared of.”

— Will Smith

59. “Fear always springs from ignorance.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

60. “Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.”

— Bear Grylls

61. “I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.”

— Nina Simone

62. “God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Tim Ferriss

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Brian Tracy

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

— Tony Robbins

67. “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

68. “Shatter all your fear.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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

— Brian Tracy

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

— Francis Chan

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— C.G. Jung

73. “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

— John F. Kennedy

75. “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

76. “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

77. “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

78. “I failed my way to success.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Benjamin Franklin

80. “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

81. “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

82. “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

83. “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

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

— George S. Patton Jr.

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

— George Lucas

86. “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

87. “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

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

— Dale Carnegie

89. “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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Tecumseh

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

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Warren Buffett

94. “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

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

— Ram Dass

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Karl Marx

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

— Kohta Hirano

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

— Suzy Kassem

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

— Sheryl Sandberg