Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Theodosia Garrison

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

6.

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

Dryden, John

7.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

8.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

9.

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

10.

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

11.

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

Downes, Donald

12.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

13.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

14.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

15.

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

Kafka, Franz

16.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

17.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

18.

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

Francis Quarles

19.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Nightingale, Florence

22.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

24.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

25.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

26.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

27.

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

Smith, Frederick

28.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

29.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

32.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

33.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

34.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

36.

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

37.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

38.

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

Parsons, Wendell

39.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

43.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

44.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

45.

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

Edmund Burke

48.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

49.

Great fear is concealed under daring.