Motivational Quotes

Fear

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Fear

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nightingale, Florence

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Seneca

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

10.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

11.

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

Downes, Donald

12.

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

Dryden, John

13.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

14.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

15.

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

16.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

17.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

19.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

21.

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

22.

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

23.

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

29.

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

Kafka, Franz

30.

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

Proverb, Moorish

31.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

32.

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

33.

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

Francis Quarles

34.

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

35.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

36.

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

Johnson, Samuel

37.

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

42.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

43.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

44.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

45.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.