475 quotes
“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
"Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail."
— Alicia Keys
"Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise."
— William James
"Fear may come true that which one is afraid of."
— Viktor Frankl
"I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them."
— Veronica Roth
"And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?"
— Umberto Eco
"When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice."
— Toni Morrison
"Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared."
— Sun Tzu
"To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self."
— Søren Kierkegaard
"There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
— Seneca
"f you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen."
"It was a simple thing. All terror is a simplicity. ("Interval In Sunlight")"
— Ray Bradbury
"When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die."
"I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death."
— Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened."
— Michel de Montaigne
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
— Marie Curie
"The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women."
— Malala Yousafzai
"Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway."
— Laurell K. Hamilton
"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."
— Joseph Campbell
"I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center."
— Jorge Luis Borges
"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