Best Fear Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Zombies are apocalyptic. I think that's why people love them because we're living in, not apocalyptic times, but I think we're living in fear of the apocalyptic times.”

“I've never done a zip wire. I'm a scaredy-cat.”

“A lot of girls on YouTube want to show their personality, but they are afraid because they think people only want them to do beauty videos. That's just not true.”

“Don't be afraid of your dreams.”

“I wanted to take away the fear of failure from the youngsters because when I came into the Indian team I faced that pressure.”

“If I've got a message to the younger generation, it's this: don't be scared of failure. Get out there, try things, and never be afraid to ask for help.”

“Young girls in Haryana should speak their mind and not be afraid to challenge the system.”

“I was always fighting from a young age, in school and everywhere else. I didn't have any fear of anything like that. I could really hurt people.”

“I saw Fear perform live at a young age, so I guess you could say I draw from that same energy.”

“Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is a chance to serve your community. There is a chance to shape it co-operatively and democratically, without fear or favour.' And that is what I tried to do.”

“Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.”

“My No. 1 dream match is Brock Lesnar. And I want that to be a WrestleMania match. I don't know if the WWE will ever let that happen, because they might be afraid he might legitimately hurt me pretty bad.”

“If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more.”

“To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.”

“I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.”

“I'm scared of the Internet. That's not real, but it is. I'm worried about what it's doing to us.”

“I'm not afraid of working hard at anything, whatever it is. I just always want to be the best that I can.”

“Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried.”

“I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear.”

“I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.”

“I believe that anybody can cohabitate with whoever they want to, but marriage to me is, you know, between a man and a woman and I'm not going to be afraid to say it.”

“We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.”

“Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.”

“I don't have any fear of failure whatsoever. I used to, and I told myself I wouldn't allow myself to anymore.”

“I still get scared every time I go out. I get scared taking off; I get scared on the wave, falling, everything. But, you know, growing up with it, I guess you're a little more comfortable.”

“I can't waste more time worrying unless something surfaces that should legitimately cause fear.”

“Fear is a waste of time.”

“Everybody has had that experience of really wanting to do something and being afraid.”

“Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.”

“I can't tell you at DragCon how many families that waited in line to see me. Some of them waited up to five hours, and they had their family there. That's the beauty of this. I remember being that little gay boy in Mesquite that was so afraid of the world, like, 'Am I living right? Am I living wrong?'”

“The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it's very hard for people like that - people like me - to open up. But playing it safe means you stop being open to learning. I always try to find the challenges.”

“I'm someone who has always believed in being extremely vocal about my thoughts, and I'm definitely not someone who's afraid to speak her mind.”

“On tour he gets in, gets out and does his business. But in the Ryder Cup he's definitely vocal and will be talking to everyone. That's the thing about Poulter; he's not scared to be the leader in that environment.”

“Fear isn't in my vocabulary in terms of how I approach a fight.”

“I am not afraid to say my relationship with my man is important, even vital, to who I am as a person.”

“I tried the second season of 'American Horror Story,' and it scared me horribly. I guess I prefer my own imagination to a realized visual.”

“I think artists are scared to have same-gendered pronouns in their writing, and I don't think it's because they're scared to be out, because gay artists are visible, but they don't want to alienate an audience.”

“In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.”

“Our culture has changed. It has become more violent. People are literally afraid to go to the movies or to school.”

“I've written so many verses and keep on writing so many more that I became afraid that if I didn't write them into one big book, I might forget some of them.”

“I'm a vegetarian, so I have a huge fear of blood.”

“Women are under-represented in TV comedy for a variety of reasons, the hackneyed 'fear that women aren't funny' being one of them.”

“We should not fear what is new, but we should not throw out that which is in the past but is still valuable.”

“Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.”

“If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.”

“I'm not afraid to upset 90 percent of the people in the room if I think it's a subject that's worth making them upset about.”

“I speak my mind. I'm not really afraid of things. I actually don't think that's that unusual.”

“I'm afraid of being poor; I'm afraid of living in the projects... I'm afraid of being thought as unsuccessful.”

“I don't think having a fear of death is unreasonable.”

“Failure worries me; nobody wants to fail. There is a fear that one day, films will not come my way, or if someone doesn't watch your film, that is a worrying point. It is unpredictable in the industry.”

“I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just enjoy the day you're in. Really make the most of it.”

“People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.”

“Fear is unnecessary.”

“People say, 'You've got to challenge yourself,' and I don't think there's anything better than going, 'I don't understand how this thing is possible.' Fear of the unknown is always the thing in life.”

“Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.”

“Everybody is afraid of the unknown. Everybody is afraid of the people that they've done terrible things to!”

“There's a lot of fear around the unknown.”

“Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.”

“Do things that are uncomfortable to do. I say that because women tend to step back from things that they don't know about. And the second, most important one is, push through the fear.”

“It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.”

“I loved women who weren't afraid to get ugly in their comedy.”

“I think control is a two-way street; sometimes people want to control things to keep them safe if they are afraid of life.”

“It's kind of my biggest fear: thinking I know somebody I'm going to be, and then I don't. It's probably only happened to me once or twice, but that was enough for me to definitely not do a role unless I 100% can be that person.”

“A lot of amazing films are happening, a lot amazing TV shows are happening, and people are not afraid to pick actors instead of stars.”

“At the end of the day, my biggest fear in life is that I'm gonna wind up being an actor who plays the dad on a TV show like 'Full House' or 'Small Wonder' or something - I'm, like, the desexualized dad in the show 'Alf.'”

“The truth is, I probably would be dead if I had become a star, because at that point I was so closeted and so afraid of people of finding out I was gay. There was no telling what would have happened.”

“The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.”

“If you grow up in a certain place where you are afraid of the police, it definitely does something to your decisions, how you feel about yourself, if the people who are supposed to protect you and look after you, you are brought up afraid of them and not trusting of them.”

“I came to understand that Nic on drugs was not the Nic I knew and trusted. Nic on drugs was somebody else. We were afraid of him.”

“The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.”

“If you win the Carling Cup, it can give you confidence, and sometimes, when you haven't won a trophy, you become scared of winning.”

“Don't be afraid of who sits in the White House. God can triumph over Trump.”

“It's my biggest fear that one day I'm going to trip on stage.”

“I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.”

“I was a very young 21-year-old. I was very scared. I spent three years at university in west London, and I went into central London three times. I came from Shropshire, and just having travelled that far was enough ambition.”

“I'm not afraid to take questions about where I come from, where I've traveled, or how I've conducted business, because being honest about who I am is worth it.”

“I was afraid that not even Merlin the Enchanter could transform me into a writer.”

“You have to accept that traditions exist, that people don't change their minds very quickly, that people are scared.”

“When I was 8, my favorite toy was a stapler. My brother was afraid of me.”

“Going into a tournament, I try not to think about winning but I certainly won't be afraid if I get into position.”

“The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story.”

“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.”

“Something I've fought a ton in my life is fear.”

“You don't have to be a scared person. I've had so many tragedies. I've managed to withstand things that you may think you cannot tolerate. But I have the strength.”

“I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.”

“I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.”

“The greatest tip ever told to me is 'Don't be afraid to make mistakes.'”

“When I'm playing timid and afraid to make a mistake, then I'm not going to play well.”

“When I'm working with strangers, I can get a little timid or scared. With friends, I'm willing to' try anything, because there's a lot of trust involved.”

“It's crushing to realize you actually don't have control over what people think of you, and even as much as you think you do... That's a huge fear of mine. I think that's especially tied into queerness.”

“I love throwing the deep ball. That is something I'm not scared of.”

“I thrive on fear.”

“I could never say that fear really gets to me. I'm not one of those fighters like Nigel Benn who says, 'I thrive on fear.' I walk through fear.”

“I've always thrived under the pressure of the big games. I enjoy that, and there's nothing I get afraid about.”

“Sporting cannot be subjected to fear, blackmail and threats.”

“I'm afraid that it's not possible to design a defense against every conceivable threat that you can think of.”

“Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.”

“Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.”

“For me, no matter what movie I make, no matter what the genre or the budget, they all have the same theme at their core: fear of death and happiness about living.”

“The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie.”