Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Bible

5.

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

6.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

7.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

8.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

9.

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

Kempis, Thomas

10.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

11.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

12.

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

Taylor Swift

13.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

14.

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

15.

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

16.

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

17.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

18.

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

19.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

20.

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

21.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

22.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

23.

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

Renard, Jules

24.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

25.

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

Seneca

26.

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

27.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

28.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

29.

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

Proverb, Moorish

30.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

31.

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

Kafka, Franz

32.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

33.

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

34.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

35.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

36.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

37.

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

Nightingale, Florence

38.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

39.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

40.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

41.

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

Hoffer, Eric

42.

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

Patton, George S.

43.

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

44.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

45.

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

46.

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

47.

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

Downes, Donald

48.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

49.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

50.

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