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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

2.

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

3.

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

Taylor Swift

4.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

5.

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

6.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

7.

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

8.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

9.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

10.

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

Dryden, John

11.

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

Davis, Elmer

12.

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

13.

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

Ann Radcliffe

14.

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

Patton, George S.

15.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

16.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

17.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

18.

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

Kafka, Franz

19.

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

20.

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

Foreman, Ed

21.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

25.

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

26.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

27.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

30.

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.

31.

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

Downes, Donald

32.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

33.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

35.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

36.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

37.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

38.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

39.

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

Anderson, Marian

40.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

41.

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

42.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

43.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

47.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

48.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

49.

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

50.

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