Motivational Quotes

Fear

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

2.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

3.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

4.

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

5.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

6.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

7.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

8.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

9.

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

10.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

11.

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

12.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

13.

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.

14.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

15.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

16.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

17.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

18.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

19.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

20.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

21.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Nightingale, Florence

23.

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

24.

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

Parsons, Wendell

25.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

26.

Fear is what kills us.

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.

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

29.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

33.

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.

34.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

35.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

36.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

37.

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

38.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

39.

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

Taylor Swift

40.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

42.

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

43.

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

44.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

45.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

46.

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

Anderson, Marian

47.

A fighter has to know fear.