Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

- Jones, Eli Stanley

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Francis Quarles

2.

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

3.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

4.

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

Seneca

5.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

6.

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

7.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

8.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

9.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

10.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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

Edmund Burke

12.

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

Ann Radcliffe

13.

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

14.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

15.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

16.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

17.

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

Axiom, Grandma

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

21.

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

Eric Hoffer

22.

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

Johnson, John

23.

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

24.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

25.

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

King, Billie Jean

26.

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

27.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

28.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

29.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

30.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

31.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

32.

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

33.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

34.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

35.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

36.

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

Hill, Napoleon

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

Patton, George S.

40.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

41.

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

42.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

44.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

45.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

46.

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

Akhenaton

47.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

48.

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

49.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

50.

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

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