Motivational Quotes

Fear

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

- Maclaren, Alexander

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

2.

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

Dyson, Freeman

3.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

4.

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

5.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

6.

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

7.

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

8.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

9.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

10.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

12.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

13.

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

Davis, Elmer

14.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

15.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

17.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

18.

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

Brown, Les

19.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

20.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

21.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

25.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

26.

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

Nightingale, Earl

27.

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

Eric Schmidt

28.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.

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

Bible

30.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Johnson, John

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

36.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

40.

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

41.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

45.

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

46.

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

Dryden, John

47.

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

Akhenaton

48.

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

Francis Quarles

49.

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