Quotations about Fear

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.  

George S. Patton

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

James Hastings

To fear is one thing.  To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.  

Katherine Paterson

Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.  

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 makes us feel our humanity.  

Benjamin Disraeli

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.  

Joseph Campbell

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. 

George Matthew Adams 

There is much in the world to make us afraid.  There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.  

Frederick W. Cropp

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost.  

Lloyd Douglas

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.  

Rosa Parks