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.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

2.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

6.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

7.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

8.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

9.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

Downes, Donald

12.

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

13.

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

14.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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

Edmund Burke

16.

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

King, Billie Jean

17.

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

Eric Hoffer

18.

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.

19.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

21.

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

Patton, George S.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

25.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

26.

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

Ann Radcliffe

27.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

28.

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

29.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

30.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

31.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

32.

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

Kafka, Franz

33.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

34.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

35.

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

36.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

38.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

39.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

Renard, Jules

43.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

44.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

45.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

46.

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

47.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

48.

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

Johnson, Samuel

49.

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

Nightingale, Florence

50.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.