Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

- Proverb, Swedish

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Eric Hoffer

2.

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

Patton, George S.

3.

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

4.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

5.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

6.

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

7.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

8.

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

Bradbury, Ray

9.

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

10.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

11.

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

13.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

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

15.

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

16.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

17.

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Dryden, John

20.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

21.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

22.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

23.

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

24.

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

Davis, Elmer

25.

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

Downes, Donald

26.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

27.

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

Taylor Swift

28.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

29.

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

Proverb, Moorish

30.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

31.

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

32.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

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

34.

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

Seneca

35.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

36.

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

37.

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

Kempis, Thomas

38.

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

Epictetus

39.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

40.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

43.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

48.

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

49.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

50.

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