Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear guides more than gratitude.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

2.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

3.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

4.

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

5.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

6.

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

Anderson, Marian

7.

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

8.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

9.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

10.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

11.

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

12.

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

Paul, Jean

13.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

16.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

17.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

18.

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

Smith, Frederick

19.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

20.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

24.

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

25.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

26.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

27.

Fear is what kills us.

28.

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.

29.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

30.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Eric Schmidt

32.

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

33.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

35.

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

36.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

37.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

38.

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

Theodosia Garrison

39.

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

Dyson, Freeman

40.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

41.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

44.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

Dryden, John

46.

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

47.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

48.

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.

49.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

50.

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