Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Davis, Elmer

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Anderson, Marian

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Dale, Stan

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

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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.

10.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

11.

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

Davis, Elmer

12.

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.

13.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

14.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

15.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

17.

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

Theodosia Garrison

18.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

21.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

24.

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

25.

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

Ann Radcliffe

26.

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

Akhenaton

27.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

28.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

29.

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

30.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

32.

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

Hoffer, Eric

33.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

34.

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

George Carlin

35.

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

36.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

37.

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

38.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

39.

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

Edmund Burke

40.

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

41.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

42.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

43.

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

44.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Johnson, John

49.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

50.

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