Fear Quotes

“I like to do something I fear.”

— Heath Ledger

“Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.”

— Warren Buffett

“Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.”

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”

— Edmund Burke

“Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.”

— Bill Owens

“Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.”

— Mel Brooks

“I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.”

— Tommy Lee Jones

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.”

— Ang Lee

“Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.”

— W. Clement Stone

“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.”

— Audre Lorde

“To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.”

— Keith Richards

“I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.”

— Harlan Coben

“The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.”

— George Saunders