Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

2.

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

3.

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

4.

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

Brown, Les

5.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

6.

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

Proverb, Moorish

7.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

8.

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

Bible

9.

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

10.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

11.

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.

12.

Fear is what kills us.

13.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

14.

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

Kafka, Franz

15.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

16.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

17.

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

Patton, George S.

18.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

19.

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

20.

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

Edmund Burke

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.

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

23.

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

24.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

25.

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

26.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

27.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Anderson, Marian

30.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Francis Quarles

33.

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

Eric Hoffer

34.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

35.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

36.

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

Epictetus

37.

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

38.

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

Johnson, John

39.

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

40.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

41.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Nightingale, Earl

45.

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

46.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

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

Dale, Stan

48.

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

49.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

50.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De