Welcome to Scared Quotes, a collection of profound and thought-provoking expressions that delve into the depths of fear and apprehension. Fear, an emotion as old as humanity itself, has been a constant companion throughout our journey on this earth. From the primal fears of the unknown to the complex anxieties of modern life, fear has shaped our decisions, our societies, and our very existence. In this curated selection of quotes, we explore the myriad facets of fear, offering insights, comfort, and perhaps even a glimmer of hope in the face of our most daunting challenges.
Within these pages, you will find words from philosophers, authors, artists, and thinkers from across the ages, each offering their unique perspective on the nature of fear. Whether it’s the fear of failure that holds us back, the fear of the future that keeps us awake at night, or the fear of the unknown that sends shivers down our spine, these quotes remind us that we are not alone in our struggles. They serve as reminders that fear, though powerful, is not insurmountable, and that courage can be found even in the darkest of moments. So take a moment to explore, reflect, and find solace in the timeless wisdom contained within these scared quotes.
You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good. Kanye West
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there. Bonnie Raitt
Feel the fear, and do it anyway. That’s the mentality. Even if you’re scared, just do it. Bree Runway
I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it. Jensen Ackles
I believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, if you don’t have a good breakfast, then what are you going to do with the rest of your day. I get scared when I don’t have a good breakfast! Maisie Williams
I’m not a huge fan of horror movies myself because I’m a big baby and I get too scared to watch them. Katrina Bowden
I want to show people they don’t have to be scared of being different. Jazz Jennings
If worms had machine guns, then birds wouldn’t be scared of them. Jim Harbaugh
Don’t be scared to fly high, ’cause it will inspire others. Kerli
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. Omar N. Bradley
After Westlife, I was in a scared place, you know; you’ve three children, and I worry about providing for them, and I had no guarantees going forward about the future. Shane Filan
When you’re older, you want to be scared because you understand more where the boundaries between fantasy and reality are, and I suppose they are more blurred the younger you are. David Tennant
When you face a ‘performance’ that might provoke the ‘I’m scared’ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‘Dancing with the Stars!’ Wayne Dyer
A scared journalist produces a lifeless citizen. If our news is scared of the government, it is great injustice to readers and viewers who have been cheated in the name of news. Ravish Kumar
If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who ‘did all that stuff to you’ were just as frightened and scared as you are. Louise L. Hay
A lot of people don’t want to make their own decisions. They’re too scared. It’s much easier to be told what to do. Marilyn Manson
I’m scared to be political. You get too powerful, and more people try to take you out. Meek Mill
The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don’t get scared, get ready to buy! Larry Williams
Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and I at their age; they are not scared. They are not what we were. They hold hands and scream: ‘Don’t be afraid! Don’t be afraid! We are together!’ They understand that no one will give them their rights; they must go get them. Marjane Satrapi
Be original; don’t be scared of being bold! Ed Sheeran
In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone. Bill Gates
Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car. Ayrton Senna
Anyone who said he wasn’t afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn’t shake but inside I was shaking. James L. Farmer, Jr.
We only fear what we don’t understand, and I hate to be scared. Parvathy
Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I’d rather be the person that’s like, ‘I messed up,’ than, ‘I wish I did that.’ Justine Skye
My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it’d be like ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn’t be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it. Natalie Martinez
I hate horror movies. I get really scared, and I don’t want to be scared. I don’t know why, but I’m one of those people who gets frightened and can’t go to sleep. Callum Turner
I love getting scared. I find myself putting myself in situations like haunted houses or going to a haunted hospital for my birthday. Yes, I’ve actually done that. Selena Gomez
I’m not the All-Star point guard that everybody’s dreaming about right now. I’m not that. I wish I was, but I’m a work in progress and I’m not scared to admit that. But what I am is a good citizen and a guy who’s not scared to put his neck on the line for his community or for his state. And I’m always going to do that. George Hill
I learned long ago you run unopposed, or you run scared. Pete Gallego
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question. Gertrude Stein
Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing’s dark, dark is beautiful too. Bai Ling
I remember so many times taking classes and feeling completely discouraged because I felt like I wasn’t getting it and I couldn’t understand. I kept working at it and I kept going back to class, and I wouldn’t let myself get intimidated or get scared away, and it really does pay off. Meaghan Rath
I’m not scared to speak my mind and tell you what it is. Prodigy
I think on some level, you do your best things when you’re a little off-balance, a little scared. You’ve got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing. Willem Dafoe
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. Greg Davies
I’m scared to death of being poor. It’s like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It’s my pet paranoia. Cher
Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society. Wes Craven
I’m not even scared of the devil. If the devil confronted me, I’d confront him as well. Tyson Fury
A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‘Jackie, are you scared?’ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman. Jackie Chan
Fearless means trusting your instincts and clarity of thought. Once you have made up your mind, don’t be scared of what if. Ravi Shastri
I think it’s chauvinistic to think that women don’t like to get scared. Jerry O’Connell
If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I’m doing the wrong thing. Jack Hanna
I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled. Charlize Theron
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive. Lil B
Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film. Ashley Scott
It’s as much fun to scare as to be scared. Vincent Price
I know that if I wasn’t scared, something’s wrong, because the thrill is what’s scary. Richard Pryor
People say to me all the time, ‘You have no fear.’ I tell them, ‘No, that’s not true. I’m scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I’m a courageous person because I’m a scared person.’ Ronda Rousey
R, Rod Wave, that comes from one of my homeboys gave me that name ’cause I used to be scared to upload my music. I just used to make music and just to listen to it myself. So one day, he just uploaded it and gave me my name. I came back to school, everybody was like, ‘Rod Wave!’ I ain’t know what the hell they was talkin’ ’bout. Rod Wave
Growing up as a queer child in Mississippi, I got my Nintendo in 1985, and I’ve been lost in this world ever since. When I was scared because my church said people like me were going to burn in hell, ‘Final Fantasy,’ ‘Dragon Warrior’ and ‘Super Mario’ offered a lifeboat. Brianna Wu
If I’m scared and I’m a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight? Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are. Michael Jordan
I don’t feel scared about death, I just feel so frustrated and sad to think I won’t see how stories end. My children’s story. My wife’s. The football. All the stories going on in the world that you’re going to miss the end of. Bob Mortimer
My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don’t, I learn from the match and move on. Saina Nehwal
At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever. Kendrick Lamar
I’m very scared of water. When you don’t see the water… I imagine monsters – stupid things. Eva Green
The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. Tillie Olsen
When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn’t truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn’t make any sense. But unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible. Bruce Schneier
When you’re scared, when you’re hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you’re going to see what you’re really made of. Sylvester Stallone
Be yourself, be an individual – people are scared to be themselves. Dan Bilzerian
The thing is, I’m never scared. It’s just in the blood, really. My family come from a warrior clan background, the Rajput tribe from the Punjab, and that could be one of the reasons. Going into fights just seems normal to me. Amir Khan
Yes, I am scared of prison. It’s the last thing if you are after building up a business over 38 years and you are approaching your 66th birthday and you never owed a man a penny and you feel hard done by and you try to protect yourself and your family and go to prison – if that is the society we are living in, I am happy to accept that. Sean Quinn
Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared. Paul McCartney
The Bible says to ‘fear not,’ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid. Joyce Meyer
After you take time off, it can be really scary to do the harder things you used to do, and I personally hate being scared. Sunisa Lee
The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we’d been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality. Hunter Tylo
The one who intimidates me is myself. I’m scared to fail. That is the thing that makes me the most afraid, to fail. Just to think that I can do a mistake and lose the fight scares me, so that is why I work out a lot: to bring more chance to my size and less chance to my opponent. Francis Ngannou
I’m afraid of everything. But maybe when you’re afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you’re scared of nothing. Natalie Portman
I gotta stay in that light where people will see me and hear me. And not be scared of me, you know? Lil Durk
I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared. John Kennedy
I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline – production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one. Alfred Hitchcock
I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away. Fiona Apple
I try and make it possible for beginners to start training MMA and not be scared of it as a sport. I try to actually give them the skill set that is necessary – to feel comfortable, maybe not on a big level. And not just Russia, but worldwide. Fedor Emelianenko
I’m not scared. I always go forward, trying to create space and make my way toward the goal. Neymar
I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience. Adam Sandler
I’m really scared of failing. Giannis Antetokounmpo
To be honest, I’m scared to death of rollercoaster rides. Liam Neeson
I limited myself to one shout a day. But I didn’t like the sound of my voice. It sounded panicked, it sounded scared. And I knew from experience you can’t hear more than 50 yards either way down a canyon. Aron Ralston
Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday. Steven Pinker
Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway. John Wayne
The transgender bathroom thing – it’s just so obvious that people are scared of what they don’t understand. It’s like, ‘I don’t want to deal with the fact that some people might have been born in the wrong body.’ Nikki Glaser
I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I’m not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds. Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Don’t ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy and sad and excited and scared. Make them stare into space after they’ve put the book down, thinking about the tale that’s become a part of them. James Dashner
Don’t you want to know what’s real and what’s not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it’s almost like, what’s real and what’s not? Queen Latifah
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. John Foster Dulles
I think it’s good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that. Oscar Isaac
I’m not at the point where I’d feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I’m the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone’s going to jump out and get me. Britney Spears
Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn’t make sense in people’s minds. If I’m white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I’m going to rob them? Which, that can still happen. Jordan Peele
I tend to think you’re fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway. Christian Bale
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared. Eddie Rickenbacker
For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother. Marilyn Monroe
The best piece of advice someone has ever given me was ‘do it scared.’ And no matter if you’re scared, just go ahead and do it anyway because you might as well do it scared, so it will get done and you will feel so much better if you step out of your comfort zone. Sherri Shepherd
When you’re scared, you’re still hanging on to life. When you’re ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you’ve never done it before. Sebastian Junger
I’m scared of needles. Dwyane Wade
I’m scared of being a one-hit wonder because my second single has set the bar too high. Tones and I
The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them. Peter Lynch
There’s nothing to be scared of. We’re playing basketball. The only thing that could happen is you failing. But as long as you’re going hard, there’s nothing to be scared of for me. I don’t know what there is to be scared of. Kawhi Leonard
My son had a tumour on his neck. We went for surgery but it failed because the tumour was difficult to remove. Later, we went to New York for his surgery. I was scared as his first operation had failed. I went to church and met a pastor. He told me to go ahead, God would take care of everything. And the surgery was successful. Johnny Lever