Fear is always in relation to something;
it does not exist by itself.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear doesn't exist anywhere
except in the mind.
-Dale Carnegie

Your fear is 100% dependent on you
for its survival.
-Steve Maraboli

When fear enters,
truth escapes.
-Swahili Proverb

To be afraid is to behave
as if the truth were not true.
-Bayard Rustin

Fear is the cause
of all suffering, all limitations, all negative emotions.
-Diane Mariechild

We must learn there is nothing to fear
but our own negativity.
-Betty Bethards

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

The only thing we have to fear
is fear itself.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fear, and it will appear.
-Lester Levenson

Fear, like many negative qualities,

creates a negative magnet as soon as it increases.

-Agni Yoga Society, Heart

The more intense the fear,
the deeper the subconscious impression
and the more we shall receive of that which we feared.
-John K. Williams

It is the law that the more you fear something
the more likely it is to happen.
If you do not want something to happen,
therefore, do not fear it!
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

I know fear is an obstacle for some people,
but it is an illusion to me.
-Michael Jordan

Of all the liars in the world,
sometimes the worst are your own fears.
-Rudyard Kipling

Half our fears are baseless,
the other half discreditable.
-Christian Bovee

Fear "floats,"
for it has no real foundations.
-G. A. Gaskell

Fear is the static
that prevents me from hearing my intuition.
-Hugh Prather

I will show you fear
in a handful of dust.
-T. S. Eliot

Fears are caused by a misuse of imagination.
-Herbert Casson

Fear is the darkroom
where negatives are developed.
-Anonymous

Fear demands feeling.
-Plotinus

To him who is in fear,
everything rustles.
-Sophocles

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
-German Proverb

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

Our real fears are the sounds of footsteps
walking in the corridors of our minds,
and the anxieties, the phantom floatings they create.
-Truman Capote

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

Fear is a distorting mirror
in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself,
stretched to terrible proportions;
once inflamed, the imagination pursues
the craziest and most unlikely possibilities.
What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.
-Stefan Zweig

Fear blocks.
-Sivananda Radha

Fear is sand
is the machinery of life.
-Earl Stanley Jones

Fear is the real brake.
-Lobsang Rampa

Fear is comparable to obstinate rocks,
in that they stifle effort and paralyze initiative.
-G. A. Gaskell

Fear is the noose
that binds until it strangles.
-Jean Toomer

Confusion may be
one of the principal causes of fear.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear comes from uncertainty.
-Eric Hoffer

Fear is born of uncertainty
and nourished by pessimism.
-Lois Wyse

The fears we know
Are of not knowing
-W. H. Auden

Nothing is life is to feared,
only understood.
-Marie Curie

One is never afraid of the unknown;
one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear is always fear of loss.
-Richard Bach

Fear is a suggestion for adverse conditions.
-William Walker Atkinson, "A. P. Mukerji"

To resist, to withdraw, to depend
is a consequence of fear.
-Vanda Scaravelli

Fear is an acute form of negative concentration -
worry its chronic form.
-William Walker Atkinson, "A. P. Mukerji"

Something indefinite is always worse than something definite,
a strong fear that doesn't last very long
is easier than one that's nebulous but doesn't go away.
-Stefan Zweig

Even if there was real danger,
fear does not help.
-Aurobindo Ghose

Fear is the shadow cast upon the light of the soul;
the shadow is something the soul does not know,
which is strange to the soul.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

If the soul experiences an absence of Light
from any part of itself,
the personality will experience
this absence of Light as fear.
-Gary Zukav

Fear can only grow in darkness.
Once you face fear with light, you win.
-Steve Maraboli

Fear always springs from ignorance.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever we are afraid,
it's because we don't know enough.
If we understood enough,
we would never be afraid.
-Earl Nightingale

Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear is overcome by
knowledge, familiarity,
and by facing it with awareness
that fear has no power
other than the power you allow it to exert.
-Rebecca Clark

Uprooting fear is the eradication of illusion.

-William Douglas Horden

Fear is only as deep
as the mind allows.
-Japanese Proverb

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

Fear cannot take
what you do not give it.
-Author Unknown

We fear because we want to fear.
We indulge ourselves.
-John K. Williams

When fear ceases to scare you,
it cannot stay.
-Gary Zukav

Grab the broom of anger
and drive off the beast of fear.
-Zora Neale Hurston

If you do not come face to face with your fears,
you will find yourself
always running away from them.
-Anonymous

We must travel in the direction of our fear.
-John Berryman

The only antidote to fear is to go through it.
-James Hollis

Every kind of fear
grows worse by not being looked at.
-Bertrand Russell

Every time you look into the face of fear, it disappears
but if you keep looking to the shadow, it grows and grows.
-Satyananda

Only the unknown frightens men.
But once a man has faced the unknown,
that terror becomes the known.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Do the thing you fear
and the death of fear is certain.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do what you fear
and fear disappears.
-David Joseph Schwartz

They can conquer who believe they can.
He has not learned the first lesson of life
who does not every day surmount a fear.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear defeats more people
than any other one thing in the world.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us not fear the hidden.
Or each other.
-Muriel Rukeyser

Don't let your life by controlled by fears
that are usually based
in recalling the horror stories of others.
-Jamie Sams

One must control fear:
fear of danger, fear of defeat,
fear of inadequacy, fear of death.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Fear not death
fear not life
-The Oculatum

Fear is a question:
What are you afraid of, and why?
-Marilyn Ferguson

Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge
if we explore them.
-Marilyn Ferguson

Find out what you're afraid of
and go live there.
-Chuck Palahniuk

Fear tells us what we have to do...
The more scared we are of a work or calling,
the more we can be sure that we have to do it.
-Steven Pressfield

Find out what a person fears most
and that is where he will develop next.
-Carl Jung

Everything you want
is on the other side of fear.
-Jack Canfield

Your greatest gift
lies beyond the door named fear.
-Sufi Saying

Ultimately we know deeply
that the other side of every fear
is a freedom.
-Marilyn Ferguson

The only real prison is fear,
and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
-Aung San Suu Kyl

Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasures.
-Rainer Maria Rilke

There must be freedom from fear,
not only at the conscious level,
but in the deep layers of the mind
in which the so-called unconscious is.
-Jiddu Krishanmurti

There is no need to fear anything,
for we carry the indwelling power
to overcome everything.
-Venice Bloodworth

Fear only exists when you do not understand
you have the power to project thought
and the universe will respond.
-Esther Hicks, "Abraham-Hicks"

He who has conquered fear
has conquered failure.
-James Allen

The certainty that nothing can happen to us
that does not in our innermost being belong to us
is the foundation of fearlessness.
-Lama Govinda

There would be nothing to frighten you
if you refused to be afraid.
-Mohandas Gandhi

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
-Audre Lorde

You are only afraid
when you are not in harmony with yourself.
-Hermann Hesse

Alas! the fearful unbelief
is unbelief in yourself.
-Thomas Carlyle

Fear is the thought
of admitted inferiority.
-Elbert Hubbard

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,
our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
-Marianne Williamson

We fear our own potential.
-Steven Sadleir

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
-Soren Kierkegaard

Intelligent practice always deals with just one thing:
the fear at the base of human existence,
the fear that I am not...
I fear to see what I am:
an ever-changing energy field.
-Charlotte Joko Beck

Fear is a distraction from "what is,"
from the present actual moment,
preventing us from existing,
from being what we are.
-Vanda Scaravelli

Ultimately, fear is the antithesis of being,
and at the root of all fear is the fear of non-being.
-Keith Sherwood

To fear anything
is to believe you are separate from God.
-Emmet Fox

Where fear is present,
wisdom cannot be.
-Lactantius

True fearlessness
is not the reduction of fear,
but going beyond fear.
-Chogyam Trungpa

There is no fear in the higher nature.
-Aurobindo Ghose

Discovering fearlessness
comes from working with the softness
of the human heart.
-Chogyam Trungpa

Fear and love
can never be experienced at the same time.
It is always our choice
as to which of these emotions we want.
-Gerald Jampolsky

Love can be afraid of nothing.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Perfect love casts out fear.
-The Bible

Fear must be entirely banished.
The purified soul will fear nothing.
-Plotinus

We constantly insist

on the conquest of every aspect of fear.

-Agni Yoga Society, Heart

No man should leave in the universe
anything of which he is afraid.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

There are fears that keep us alive
and fears that keep us from living.
Wisdom is understanding the difference.
-David Swenson

Only when we are no longer afraid
do we begin to live.
-Dorothy Thompson