Motivational Quotes

Fear

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.

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

2.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

3.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

4.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

5.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

6.

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

Eric Hoffer

7.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

8.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

9.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

10.

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

11.

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

12.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

13.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

14.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

15.

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

16.

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

17.

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

18.

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

19.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

20.

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

Epictetus

21.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

22.

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

Edmund Burke

23.

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

Foreman, Ed

24.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

25.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

26.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

27.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

28.

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

Brown, Les

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

31.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

32.

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

33.

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

Ann Radcliffe

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

35.

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

Kempis, Thomas

36.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

37.

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

Dyson, Freeman

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Emily Dickinson

41.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

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

Bryant, Jean

45.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

46.

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