Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

5.

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

6.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

7.

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

Anderson, Marian

8.

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

9.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

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

11.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

13.

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

Foreman, Ed

14.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

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

16.

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

Theodosia Garrison

17.

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

Hoffer, Eric

18.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

19.

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

Dale, Stan

20.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Eric Schmidt

22.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

23.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

24.

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

Seneca

25.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

26.

God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

27.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

28.

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

29.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

30.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

33.

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

Edmund Burke

34.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

35.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

36.

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

37.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

38.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

39.

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

40.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

41.

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

42.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

43.

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

44.

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

Bible

45.

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

46.

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

47.

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

Nightingale, Earl

48.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

49.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

50.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.