Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Hill, Napoleon

2.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

3.

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

Dyson, Freeman

4.

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

Renard, Jules

5.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

6.

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

Dale, Stan

7.

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

8.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

9.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

10.

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

Davis, Elmer

11.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

12.

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

George Carlin

13.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

15.

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

16.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

17.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

Foreman, Ed

19.

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

Taylor Swift

20.

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

21.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

22.

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

23.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

24.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

25.

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

Brown, Les

26.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

27.

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

Akhenaton

28.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

29.

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

30.

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

Bradbury, Ray

31.

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

32.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

33.

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

Kafka, Franz

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

38.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

39.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

40.

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

41.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

45.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

46.

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

Dryden, John

47.

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

48.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

49.

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

Axiom, Grandma

50.

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