Fear Quotes

Probe deeply enough, under the slickest façade of confidence, and you tapped a vein of self-doubt or a hidden fear. Irrational fears and baseless doubts, many of them, but that was precisely why constant reassurance was necessary to the human animal.

~ Barbara Michaels

What if you're chicken? What if you're more chicken than chicken soup? Malloy said. Kit gave him a long, hard look. Then you pretend you're not. You pretend so hard it comes true.

~ Tania Unsworth

For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or they may have means to deal with it: thus when in danger at sea people may feel confident about what will happen either because they have no experience of bad weather, or because their experience gives them the means of dealing with it.

~ Aristotle

Seeing my mother get back to her studies was all the proof I needed that a chain of emotion can persuade when one forged of logic won't hold. But more important was her example that a surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. It was something I would remember often in years ahead, whenever faced with fears that I wasn't smart enough to succeed.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.

~ Tim Fargo

When you conquer fear, you unleash a greater power from within you.

~ Stephan Labossiere

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 F. Stanley

You. You are standing in your own way. And that means whatever it is scares you. It won't forever...but take your time. Nothing good was ever rushed.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

A worm of fear wriggled in Jaden’s stomach, and the ethereal assuredness he channeled moments before evaporated as the worm burrowed deeper. When he next spoke, his own voice of trapped hysteria broke through, the worm having reached journey’s end.

~ Courtney Kirchoff

We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear

~ Paulo Coelho

I guess everyone has a bird urge when they look down heights, a desire to jump, without wing or buoyant sail. Fear of heights is fear of a desire to jump.

~ Amruta Patil

Like my loved one, I am convinced that we all have critical conditions. Battles that we undertake behind the hospitals, in lonely alleys, secret locations and sometimes public places that are out of reach to those who seem to care.

~ Phindiwe Nkosi

A relationship run by rules, instead of love is a relationship that is on the road to failure.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Hugging himself, Oscar leaned against the pantry wall. For two days all he had wanted was for Caleb to come back, and now he was back and Oscar had made a mess of things: he had angered half the customers and confused the other half, and the coin boxes did not look as they should, and [rich, noble] people were complaining about him, and he couldn't look at anybody, and [redacted] was dead, and Oscar was odd.'What if he doesn't keep me?

~ Anne Ursu

Fear not failure but success.

~ Debasish Mridha

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.

~ Charles Bukowski

Don't fear failure, fear inaction.

~ Debasish Mridha

-to me, the future doesn't seem real. It's just this magical place where I can put my responsibilities so that I don't have to be scared while hurtling toward failure at right hundred miles per hour.

~ Allie Brosh

Fear and failure, they go hand in hand. They’re like dance partners with great rhythm.

~ Hannah Brencher

You can’t let the fear of failure keep you from taking the risks that you know are the right ones to take.

~ S. Usher Evans

Fear, when blended with failure, distills into a deadly brew.

~ Thomas Ligotti

It is a greater triumph for the fearful soul who tries and fails than for the fearless who succeed.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Relax your fears, let your ambition take the wheel for a while; it'll take you somewhere exciting that you've never been.

~ Noel Dejesus

If your will to win is greater than fear of failure.. then only you will win.

~ Vikrmn

Once you discover that failure is survivable, your fear of it subsides. Failure is not opposite to success, just part of its process.

~ T Jay Taylor

The goal, then, is to uncouple fear and failure—to create an environment in which making mistakes doesn’t strike terror into your employees’ hearts.

~ Ed Catmull

She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

The fear of failure is a liability.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Employment is the exploitation of the employer’s courage, and, the employed’s fear of failure.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Obstacles are weak walls without foundations; if you fear them, they will defeat you. But the fact is that they are even afraid of you. So why frightened?

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you are afraid to fail, your successes will be few, common, and unmemorable.

~ Lorii Myers

It's a new day. Yesterday's failure is redeemed at the sunrise

~ Todd Stocker

Whatever actions you take, keep in mind that over the course of life, you will fail far more from timidity, procrastination, and carefulness than you will from just stepping up to the plate and, as we say in Australia, giving it a bloody go!

~ Margie Warrell

The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self.

~ Caroline Knapp

Failure is necessary to succeed and will become your biggest blessing.

~ Lynn Bardowski

There is something here that frightens me. When I figure out what it is that frightens me, I shall also know what I love here. Fear has always guided me toward what I desire. And because I desire, I fear. Often it was fear that took me by the hand and led me. Fear leads me to danger. And everything I love is risky.

~ Clarice Lispector

and yet…' he said, 'and yet, father, I am terribly afraid. I am afraid that the things the Landlord really intends for me may be utterly unlike the things he has taught me to desire.''they will be very unlike the things you imagine. But you already know that the objects which your desire imagines are always inadequate to that desire. Until you have it, you will not know what you wanted.

~ C.s. Lewis

We feel secure with things we can see or touch.

~ Deepak Chopra

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson