Motivational Quotes

Fear

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

2.

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

Dyson, Freeman

3.

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

4.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

5.

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

Brown, Les

6.

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

7.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

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

Northcote, James

9.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

10.

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

Hoffer, Eric

11.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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

Foreman, Ed

13.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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.

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

16.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

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.

18.

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

Patton, George S.

19.

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

Theodosia Garrison

20.

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

21.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

22.

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

23.

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

Seneca

24.

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

25.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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.

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

29.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

31.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

33.

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

Francis Quarles

34.

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

35.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

36.

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

Downes, Donald

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.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

39.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

40.

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

41.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

42.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

43.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

44.

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

45.

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

46.

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

47.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

48.

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