Motivational Quotes

Fear

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

2.

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

3.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

4.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

5.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

6.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

7.

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

Carnegie, Dale

8.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

9.

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

Eric Hoffer

10.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

11.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

12.

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

George Carlin

13.

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

14.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

16.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

17.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

18.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

19.

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

20.

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.

21.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

22.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

23.

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

24.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

Axiom, Grandma

27.

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

28.

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

29.

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

30.

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

Anderson, Marian

31.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

32.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

33.

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

34.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

36.

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

Ann Radcliffe

37.

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

38.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

39.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

41.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

42.

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

Downes, Donald

43.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Taylor Swift

45.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

46.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

47.

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

48.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

49.

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

50.

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

Dryden, John