Motivational Quotes

Fear

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

2.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

3.

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

4.

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

Theodosia Garrison

5.

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.

6.

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

7.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

8.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

9.

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

Foreman, Ed

10.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

11.

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

Patton, George S.

12.

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

13.

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

Akhenaton

14.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

15.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

16.

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

Brown, Les

17.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

18.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

19.

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

Seneca

20.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

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

23.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

24.

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

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Downes, Donald

27.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

29.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

30.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

31.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

32.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

33.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

34.

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

35.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

36.

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

Nightingale, Earl

37.

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

38.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

39.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

40.

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

Carnegie, Dale

41.

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

42.

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

43.

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

Eric Hoffer

44.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

45.

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

Kafka, Franz

46.

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

Hill, Napoleon

47.

Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

48.

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

Proverb, Moorish

49.

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

50.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca