Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Dryden, John

2.

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

3.

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

Epictetus

4.

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

5.

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

George Carlin

6.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

8.

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

Ann Radcliffe

9.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

13.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

14.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

15.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

16.

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

17.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

21.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

22.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

23.

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

24.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

25.

Fear is what kills us.

26.

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

27.

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

Bible

28.

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

29.

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

30.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

31.

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

Downes, Donald

32.

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

33.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

34.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

35.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

36.

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

37.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

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

39.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

40.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

41.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

42.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

43.

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

Axiom, Grandma

44.

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

Eric Schmidt

45.

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

46.

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

Anderson, Marian

47.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

48.

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

Nightingale, Florence

49.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

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