Motivational Quotes

Fear

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

- Bataille, Georges

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

2.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

3.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

4.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

5.

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

6.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

7.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

8.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

9.

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

Kempis, Thomas

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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

Edmund Burke

12.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

13.

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

14.

God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

15.

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

16.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

17.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

18.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

19.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

20.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

21.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

22.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

23.

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

Nightingale, Florence

24.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

25.

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

Proverb, Moorish

26.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

27.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

28.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

29.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

30.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

31.

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

32.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

34.

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

George Carlin

35.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

36.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

37.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

38.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

39.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

41.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

43.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

44.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

45.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

46.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

47.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

50.

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.