Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Edmund Burke

4.

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

Taylor Swift

5.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

6.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

7.

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

8.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

9.

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

Kafka, Franz

10.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

11.

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

12.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

13.

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

Carnegie, Dale

14.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

15.

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

16.

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

Nightingale, Florence

17.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

18.

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

19.

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

20.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

21.

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

22.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

23.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

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

Axiom, Grandma

25.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

26.

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

Renard, Jules

27.

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.

28.

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

George Carlin

29.

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

30.

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

Francis Quarles

31.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

32.

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

34.

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

35.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

37.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

38.

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

39.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

40.

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

Kempis, Thomas

41.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

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

43.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

44.

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

45.

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

46.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

47.

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

Seneca

48.

He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

49.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

50.

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