Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

2.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

3.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

4.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

5.

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

6.

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

Paul, Jean

7.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

8.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

9.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

12.

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

13.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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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

15.

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

16.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

17.

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

18.

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

19.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

20.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

22.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

23.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

24.

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

Johnson, John

25.

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

26.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

27.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

28.

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

29.

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

Anderson, Marian

30.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

31.

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

32.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

33.

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

Kempis, Thomas

34.

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

Eric Hoffer

35.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Edmund Burke

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

40.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

42.

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.