Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Scheele, Paul R.

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

2.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

3.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

4.

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

5.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

6.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

7.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

8.

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

9.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

11.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

12.

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

13.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

14.

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

15.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

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

Ann Radcliffe

17.

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

Theodosia Garrison

18.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

19.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

20.

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

21.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

22.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

23.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

26.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

27.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

28.

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

Emily Dickinson

29.

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

Kempis, Thomas

30.

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

Taylor Swift

31.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

32.

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

33.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

34.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

35.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

36.

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

37.

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

Shakespeare, William

38.

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

39.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

40.

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

41.

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

Akhenaton

42.

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.

43.

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

Dyson, Freeman

44.

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.

45.

Fear is what kills us.

46.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon