Motivational Quotes

Fear

Only your mind can produce fear.

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

2.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

3.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

4.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

5.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

6.

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

7.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

8.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

9.

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

10.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

11.

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

12.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

13.

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

14.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

15.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

17.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

18.

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

19.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

20.

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

21.

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

22.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

23.

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

24.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

25.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

26.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

27.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

28.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

29.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

30.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

31.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

32.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

33.

Fear is what kills us.

34.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

35.

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

36.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

37.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

38.

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

39.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

40.

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

41.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

42.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

43.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

44.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

45.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

46.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

47.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

48.

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

49.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

50.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.