Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Dyson, Freeman

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Francis Quarles

2.

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

3.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

4.

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

Davis, Elmer

5.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

6.

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

Bradbury, Ray

7.

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

8.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

9.

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.

10.

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

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

Downes, Donald

12.

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

13.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

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.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

16.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

17.

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

18.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

19.

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

20.

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

Parsons, Wendell

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

23.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

24.

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

25.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

26.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

27.

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

Eric Schmidt

28.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

29.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

30.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

31.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

33.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

34.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

35.

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

36.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

37.

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

Bryant, Jean

38.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

39.

Fear is what kills us.

40.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

41.

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

Anderson, Marian

42.

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

43.

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

Edmund Burke

44.

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

45.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

46.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

47.

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

Northcote, James

48.

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

49.

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

Dryden, John

50.

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges