Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

- Cioran, E. M.

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

2.

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

Proverb, Moorish

3.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

4.

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

Eric Hoffer

5.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

6.

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

Ann Radcliffe

7.

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

8.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

9.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

10.

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

Hoffer, Eric

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

15.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

16.

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

Edmund Burke

17.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

18.

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

Axiom, Grandma

19.

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

20.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

21.

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

22.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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.

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

25.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

26.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

27.

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

Seneca

28.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

29.

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

Epictetus

30.

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

31.

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

32.

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

Johnson, Samuel

33.

Fear is what kills us.

34.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

38.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

39.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

41.

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

42.

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

Northcote, James

43.

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

44.

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

45.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

46.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

47.

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

48.

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

50.

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

Nixon, Richard M.