Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

- Anderson, Marian

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

2.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

3.

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

4.

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

Hoffer, Eric

5.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

6.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

7.

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

Emily Dickinson

8.

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

9.

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

11.

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

12.

"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

13.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Nightingale, Earl

15.

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

16.

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

17.

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

18.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

19.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

20.

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

21.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

22.

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

24.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

25.

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

28.

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

29.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

30.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

31.

Fear is what kills us.

32.

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

33.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

34.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

36.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

37.

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

38.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

39.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

40.

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

Dyson, Freeman

41.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

42.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

44.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

45.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

46.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.