Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

2.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

3.

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

Dyson, Freeman

4.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

5.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

6.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

7.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

8.

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

9.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

10.

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

11.

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

Johnson, John

12.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

14.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

15.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

16.

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

Foreman, Ed

17.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

18.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

19.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

22.

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.

23.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

24.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

25.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

29.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

30.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

32.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

33.

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

34.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

36.

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

Paul, Jean

37.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

38.

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

Hoffer, Eric

39.

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

Dale, Stan

40.

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

41.

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

Francis Quarles

42.

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

43.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

44.

Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

45.

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

46.

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

Downes, Donald

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

Akhenaton

50.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre