Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

- Jones, Eli Stanley

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

2.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

3.

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

Foreman, Ed

4.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

5.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

6.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

7.

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

Brown, Les

8.

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

9.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

10.

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

Davis, Elmer

11.

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

12.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

15.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

16.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

17.

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

Kempis, Thomas

18.

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

Ann Radcliffe

19.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

20.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

21.

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

22.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

23.

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

Taylor Swift

24.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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.

26.

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

Kafka, Franz

27.

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

Theodosia Garrison

28.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

29.

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

Paul, Jean

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

34.

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

35.

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

Nightingale, Florence

36.

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

37.

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

Renard, Jules

38.

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

39.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

42.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

43.

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

Johnson, John

44.

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

Anderson, Marian

45.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

46.

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.

47.

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

Proverb, Moorish

48.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

49.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

50.

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