Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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.

2.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

3.

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

Ann Radcliffe

4.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

5.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

6.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

7.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Kafka, Franz

12.

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

13.

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

14.

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

15.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

16.

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

Kempis, Thomas

17.

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

18.

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

Downes, Donald

19.

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

Northcote, James

20.

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

Bradbury, Ray

21.

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

Francis Quarles

22.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

23.

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

24.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Axiom, Grandma

29.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

30.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

31.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

32.

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

33.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

34.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

35.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

36.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

37.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

38.

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

Anderson, Marian

39.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

40.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

41.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

42.

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

43.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

44.

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.

45.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

46.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

47.

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

Seneca

48.

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.