Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

- Michael Pritchard

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Theodosia Garrison

2.

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

George Carlin

3.

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

4.

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

Northcote, James

5.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

6.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

7.

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

8.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

9.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

10.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

11.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

Ann Radcliffe

13.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

14.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

15.

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

Anderson, Marian

16.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

17.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

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

Bryant, Jean

19.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

22.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

23.

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

Dyson, Freeman

24.

"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

25.

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

26.

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

Kafka, Franz

27.

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

28.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

29.

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

30.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

36.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

37.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

38.

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

39.

Fear is what kills us.

40.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

41.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

42.

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

43.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

44.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

45.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

46.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

47.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

48.

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

49.

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

Kempis, Thomas

50.

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