Motivational Quotes

Fear

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Fear

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

10.

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

Johnson, John

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Moorish

13.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

15.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

16.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

17.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

18.

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

Kafka, Franz

19.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

20.

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.

21.

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

Epictetus

22.

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

23.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

24.

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

25.

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

26.

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

Akhenaton

27.

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

Carnegie, Dale

28.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

29.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

30.

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

31.

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

Edmund Burke

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

35.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

36.

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

Nightingale, Earl

37.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

38.

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

39.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

40.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

41.

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

42.

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

43.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

44.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

45.

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

46.

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

Patton, George S.

47.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

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