Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Edmund Burke

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

2.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

3.

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

Anderson, Marian

4.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

5.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

6.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

7.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

8.

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

Dyson, Freeman

9.

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.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

11.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

12.

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

13.

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

14.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

15.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

17.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

23.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

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

25.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

26.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

27.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

28.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Akhenaton

30.

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

Hoffer, Eric

31.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

32.

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

33.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

34.

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

Eric Schmidt

35.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

36.

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

Davis, Elmer

37.

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

38.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

40.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

41.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

42.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

43.

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

44.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

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

46.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

47.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von