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Fear Quotes and Sayings

Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli

Fear is faith that it won’t work out.
Sister Mary Tricky

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
Arnold Glasow

Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.
Henry H. Tweedy

Fear is the highest fence.
Dudley Nichols

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.
Usman B. Asif

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Andre Gide

Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.
James Hastings

Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.
Ruth Gendler

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley Maclaine

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
Brendan Francis

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel Butler

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
German Proverb

A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope.
Arab Proverb

Fear prejudices courage.
Abigail Charleson

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?
Maurice Freehill

Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real.
Author Unknown

Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind.
Sophie Tunnell

He who fears something gives it power over him.
Moorish Proverb

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.
Author Unknown

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.
French Proverb

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.
Donald Dowes

Fear dances with courage.
Ever Garrison

Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile… initially scared me to death.
Betty Bender

To lead is difficult when you’re a follower of fear.
T.A. Sachs

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