Motivational Quotes

Fear

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

2.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

3.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

4.

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

Akhenaton

5.

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

Axiom, Grandma

6.

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

Downes, Donald

7.

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

8.

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

Anderson, Marian

9.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

11.

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

12.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

13.

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

Kempis, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

Dyson, Freeman

16.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

17.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

18.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

19.

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

20.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

21.

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

George Carlin

22.

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

23.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

24.

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

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

29.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

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

Seneca

31.

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

32.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

33.

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

Theodosia Garrison

34.

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

Brown, Les

35.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

36.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

37.

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

38.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

39.

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

40.

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

Proverb, Moorish

41.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

42.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

43.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

44.

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

Francis Quarles

45.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

46.

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

Eric Hoffer

47.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia