Motivational Quotes

Fear

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

2.

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

3.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Davis, Elmer

7.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

8.

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

Shakespeare, William

9.

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.

10.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

Carnegie, Dale

14.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

15.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

16.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

17.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

18.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

19.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

20.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

21.

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

22.

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

Axiom, Grandma

23.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

25.

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

26.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

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

Hoffer, Eric

28.

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

29.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

30.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

31.

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

Emily Dickinson

32.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

33.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Northcote, James

37.

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

38.

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

Anderson, Marian

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.

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

41.

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

Edmund Burke

42.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

44.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

45.

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

Seneca

46.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

47.

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