Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

2.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

3.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

4.

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

5.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

6.

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

Anderson, Marian

7.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

8.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

9.

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

11.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

13.

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

14.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

Foreman, Ed

16.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

17.

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

George Carlin

18.

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

19.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

20.

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

Kafka, Franz

21.

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

Dryden, John

22.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

23.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

24.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

25.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

26.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

27.

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.

28.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

29.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

30.

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

31.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

32.

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

Nightingale, Florence

33.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

Proverb, Moorish

35.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

36.

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

Ann Radcliffe

37.

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

38.

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

Brown, Les

39.

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

40.

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

41.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

42.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

43.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

44.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

46.

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

47.

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

48.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

49.

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

King, Billie Jean

50.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.