Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Benson, Arthur Christopher

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

2.

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

Edmund Burke

3.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

4.

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

Ann Radcliffe

5.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

6.

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

7.

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

8.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

9.

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

Foreman, Ed

10.

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

Anderson, Marian

11.

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

12.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

13.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

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

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

16.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

17.

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

18.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

19.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

21.

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

Downes, Donald

22.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

23.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

24.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

25.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

26.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

27.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

28.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

29.

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

Axiom, Grandma

30.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

31.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

34.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

35.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

36.

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

37.

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

38.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

39.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

41.

Fear is what kills us.

42.

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

43.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

44.

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

45.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

47.

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

Taylor Swift

48.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

49.

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

50.

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