Fear Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

45 Fear Quotes
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“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”
Sven Goran Eriksson Quotes
“Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you.”
Rosanne Cash Quotes
“Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.”
Bill Russell Quotes
“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.”
Fulton Oursler Quotes
“Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.”
Frederick Smith Quotes
“No one loves the man whom he fears.”
Unknown Quotes
“No one loves the man whom he fears.”
Unknown Quotes
“It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome. [Lat., Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas.]”
Decimus Magnus Ausonius Quotes
Source: Septem Sapientum Sententioe Septenis Versibus Explicatoe (VII, 4)
“The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.”
Joanna Baillie Quotes
Source: Basil (act III, sc. 1, l. 151)
“The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.”
Joanna Baillie Quotes
Source: Basil (act III, sc. 1, l. 151)
“An aching tooth is better out than in, To lose a rotten member is a gain.”
Richard Baxter Quotes
Source: Hypocrisy
“Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.”
Richard Baxter Quotes
Source: Love Breathing Thanks and Praise
“The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip To laud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor grip, Let that aye be your border.”
Robert Burns Quotes
Source: Epistle to a Young Friend
“Fear is an ague, that forsakes And haunts, by fits, those whom it takes; And they'll opine they feel the pain And blows they felt, to-day, again.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III)
“His fear was greater than his haste: For fear, though fleeter than the wind, Believes 'tis always left behind.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes
Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto III, l. 64)
“In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]”
Julius Caesar (Caius Julius Caesar) Quotes
Source: De Bello Gallico (VII, 26)
“Fear has many eyes. [Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.]”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (III, 6)
“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. [Lat., Timor non est diuturnus magister officii.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes
Source: Philippicoe (II, 36)
“Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. VI)
“His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe As left him not, till penitence had won Lost favor back again, and clos'd the breach.”
William Cowper Quotes
Source: Task (bk. II, l. 659)
“The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light, And Nature stood recover'd of her fright. But fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind, And horrow heavy sat on every mind.”
John Dryden Quotes
Source: Theodore and Honoria (l. 336)
“We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes
Source: The Mill on the Floss (bk. VII, ch. V)
“If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.”
Elizabeth I Quotes
Source: Worthies of England (vol. I, p. 419), by Thomas Fuller, (written on window pane under words written
“Fear always springs from ignorance.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Source: The American Scholar