91 Greatest Fear Quotes to become fearless

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The below greatest fear quotes will tell you that no one else in the world can defeat you but your fear is very powerful in the world, it can defeat you. But if you recognize your fear, and understand it, you will find that your fear is always making you aware of something.

These greatest fear quotes will also tell you that your fear is a phoenix. You burn it as many times but it will still come back. You can’t go away from it. It’s inside you, you have to carry it with you to every place. After reading, we hope that these inspiring greatest fear quotes will make you fearless. You can also read other inspirational quotes about fearless motivation, living life, and self-belief.

Greatest Fear Quotes

Let’s read the collection of greatest fear quotes to overcome fear from your mind and achieve common life goals.

1. “A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a shortcut to meet it.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

2. “A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.” ― Leonard Ravenhill

3. “Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful” ― Warren Buffett

4. “Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.” ― Bertrand Russell

5. “Contribute fear to the cause and the effect shall be illness. Contribute faith to the cause and the effect shall be healing.” ― Jason Micheal Ratliff

6. “Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.” ― Roy T. Bennett

7. “Courage is knowing what not to fear.” ― Plato

8. “Courage is not the absence of fear, it’s to feel the fear and do it anyway.” ― Jeanette Coron

9. “Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.” ― Mark Lawrence

10. “Do not allow yourself to be blinded by fear and anger. Everything is only as it is.” ― Yuki Urishibara

11. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

12. “Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. “Don’t be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

14. “Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.” ― C. JoyBell C.

15. “Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” ― Bruce Lee

16. “Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.” ― Paulo Coelho

17. “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” ― Jack Canfield

18. “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” ― Jim Morrison

19. “Fear cuts deeper than swords.” ― George R.R. Martin

20. “Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

21. “Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up” ― Veronica Roth

22. “Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.” ― Donald Miller

23. “Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.” ― Leigh Bardugo

24. “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” ― Bertrand Russell

25. “Fear is the mind-killer.” ― Frank Herbert

26. “Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” ― J.K. rowling

27. “Fear slows down the soul. The decision encourages the spirit. However, only love and forgiveness can make a being shine.” ― Alan Maiccon

28. “Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there.” ― Chuck Palahniuk

29. “Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.” ― C.S. Lewis

30. “He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.” ― Leo Tolstoy

31. “He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.” ― Michel de Montaigne

32. “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” ― Aristotle

33. “He would not fear the darkness. He was the darkness.” ― Hafsah Faizal

34. “I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.” ― Oprah Winfrey

35. “I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.” ― Andrew Solomon

36. “I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.” ― Rainbow Rowell

37. “I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back….” ― Erica Jong

38. “I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.” ― Clarence Darrow

39. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” ― Nelson Mandela

40. “I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.” ― Veronica Roth

41. “I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” ― Woody Allen

42. “I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.” ― Taylor Swift

43. “If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.” ― Jules Renard

44. “If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.” ― Deepak Chopra

45. “If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.” ― Paulo Coelho

46. “It is a common thing, you will find, with our world, to decline familiarity with those ideas that frighten us.” ― Ik Marvel

47. “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” ― Marcus Aurelius

48. “It’s better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.” ― Michael Crichton

49. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson

50. “Knowing was a temptation. What you don’t know won’t tempt you.” ― Margaret Atwood

51. “Laughter is poison to fear.” ― George R.R. Martin

52. “Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.” ― Dan Brown

53. “Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.” ― Brom

54. “Mindless fear is greater than mindful fear.” ― Idowu Koyenikan

55. “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” ― Sigmund Freud

56. “Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don’t want to play.” ― Sherman Alexie

57. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” ― C.S. Lewis

58. “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

59. “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” ― Marie Curie

60. “One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.” ― Krishnamurti

61. “Only priests and fools are fearless and I’ve never been on the best of terms with God.” ― Patrick Rothfuss

62. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” ― Francis Chan

63. “People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton

64. “Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.” ― John Steinbeck

65. “Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.” ― Emma Donoghue

66. “Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we’re afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.” ― Jay McInerney

67. “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” ― Joseph Campbell

68. “The fear of losing can make a calm mind restless” ― Aniket S Sharma

69. “The man who fears losing has already lost.” ― George R.R. Martin

70. “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.” ― H.P. Lovecraft

71. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt

72. “The only way to get past fear is to get through it.” ― Linda Rawson

73. “The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.” ― Adam Levin

74. “There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t.” ― Lemony Snicket

75. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” ― Paulo Coelho

76. “To fear death is not to aspire good things to live for. You don’t need to be alive to die.” ― Alan Maiccon

77. “To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear.” ― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

78. “To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence.” ― Roy T. Bennett

79. “We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.” ― Eric Micha’el Leventhal

80. “We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.” ― Erica Jong

81. “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ― Plato

82. “We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.” ― François de La Rochefoucauld

83. “What you fear most of all is —fear. Very wise…” ― J.K. Rowling

84. “When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.” ― Anthony Robbins

85. “Without fear there cannot be courage.” ― Christopher Paolini

86. “You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.” ― Grace Willows

87. “You can only be afraid of what you think you know.” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti

88. “You do not yet know either that ignorance and fear will be thrusting their untruth and false show into the very essentials of Religion.” ― Ik Marvel

89. “You have two choices, to conquer your fear or to let your fear conquer you.” ― Roy T. Bennett

90. “Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.” ― Steve Maraboli

91. “Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.” ― Amit Ray

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