Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Hitchcock, Alfred

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

2.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

3.

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

4.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

5.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

6.

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

7.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

8.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

9.

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

Davis, Elmer

10.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

11.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

12.

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

13.

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

Carnegie, Dale

14.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

15.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

16.

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

Dyson, Freeman

17.

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

Edmund Burke

18.

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

Axiom, Grandma

19.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

21.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

22.

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

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.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

25.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

27.

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

28.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

29.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Akhenaton

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Nightingale, Earl

35.

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

Nightingale, Florence

36.

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

Emily Dickinson

37.

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

Bradbury, Ray

38.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

39.

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

Anderson, Marian

40.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

41.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

42.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

44.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

45.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

46.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

47.

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

48.

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

49.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

50.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De