Top 100 Fear Best Quotes
#1. Combat is fear and management of fear far more than it is organized murder. Those who manage fear best will seize the day.
Glen Cook
#2. Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success.
Michael Jordan
#3. The Unknown is scary. I'll always have some fear about what's going to happen next. The thing is, the Unknown can also be exciting. Your life could change in an instant anytime. But sometimes, that change is the best thing that will ever happen to you.
Susane Colasanti
#4. Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.
Peter Straub
#5. Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.
Mark Lawrence
#6. What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher ... Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.
Louise J. Kaplan
#7. We turned into each other's best excuse for not doing the things we were afraid of.
Tracy Guzeman
#8. See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.
Robbie Coltrane
#9. When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#10. Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like.
Lynn Jones
#11. But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
Barry Bonds
#12. The best way to come to terms with anything that is out of harmony is never to fear it - that gives it power. Bring good influences to bear upon it; make yourself a good example.
Peace Pilgrim
#13. The best part of chronic head lice is it takes away your fear of dying alone.
Dana Gould
#14. With more money brings more fear and when you're trying to be creative in a fear-based environment it's dangerous. Then decisions are made out of fear, not what's best for the film.
Lake Bell
#15. Sweetly and subtly perfumed ... so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who have to pick, ship, handle and store it in constant fear of ruinous spoilage.
Waverley Root
#16. In a lot of ways, certain things, it feels like they're never going to go away. The best thing to do is continue to ask questions, look that fear in the eye.
Tyler Blackburn
#17. The best way to overcome fear is to start doing what you are afraid of.
Sunday Adelaja
#18. Stay away from people who don't know who they are but want you to be just like them. People who'll want to label you. People who'll try to write their fears on your face.
Richard Peck
#19. The best way to expose our ignorance is to hold on to biased ideas and opinions, because we fear giving the upper hand to the other side.
Charles F. Glassman
#20. The sense of fear and loss that accompanies the letting go of dreams that will never be is best described by the German word torschlusspanik, defined as "panic at the thought that a door between oneself and life's opportunities has shut.
KathleenA. Brehony
#21. I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.
Robert Byrd
#22. Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked
Laurell K. Hamilton
#23. Hoping a situation will change keeps you at a distance from your true feelings-sadness, anger, fear. Each of these feelings is best appreciated up close. Feel them deeply, and they will cease to bother you. Hope they'll go away, and they'll bother you all day.
Gay Hendricks
#24. Fear is a Dangerous Animal.
Best kept on a short leash ...
William Curtis
#25. Fears and expectations that date back to earlier experiences of dependency, but that didn't arise during courtship or dating, are activated as commitment to the relationship increases. As a result, partners start to anticipate the worst, not the best from their relationship.
Stan Tatkin
#26. My biggest fear is expending the best and most exciting energy in sketches, no matter how quickly executed. I often need to empty the rubbish bin several times before regaining the fresh quality of the initial exploratory sketches.
Catherine Stock
#27. How was I to be a scientist, father Lion?' Science is knowing. What could I have known? Others always did the knowing, knew what was in me, what should come out of me, what was best for me. I didn't know who I was, what I wanted. I know less now, and I am afraid.
Russell Hoban
#28. A dreamer rises above their inherent fearfulness that they will always produce inferior work and grants oneself a license to put forth their best effort.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#29. Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.
Sophocles
#30. Best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#31. No failure you have need to fear, Except to fail to do your best - What have you done, what can you do? That is the question, that the test.
Various
#32. At the moment of greatest fear, the best solution is to go boldly and without hesitation.
Robert Ferrigno
#33. Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.
Victor Hugo
#34. Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.
Christine Comaford-Lynch
#35. The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George Eliot
#36. The best way to overcome your fear of creativity, brainstorming, intelligent risk-taking, or navigating a tricky situation might be to sprint.
Seth Godin
#37. Children read books, not reviews," he wrote. "They don't give a hoot about the critics." And: "When a book is boring, they yawn openly, without any shame or fear of authority." Best of all - and to the relief of authors everywhere - children "don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity.
Steven D. Levitt
#38. Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.
Thomas Jefferson
#39. The best treatment for stress, anxiety, and depression is to change your perception by knowing that all of this is coming from a fear induced illusion.
Debasish Mridha
#40. Don't believe everything you think. Our minds are thought-creating machines. Most of these thoughts are fear-based. Our authentic self has the power to pick the thoughts that best serve us and those we lead.
Henna Inam
#42. We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers
Robert E.Lee
#43. There are only two stimulants to ones best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.
John Moulder Wilson
#44. An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences.
Shreya Ghoshal
#45. With the help of the Lord, I will do the best I can, and ... with His help, I have no fear at all but what I can get along.
Heber J. Grant
#46. Sometimes,when life gets hard, and people make you angry or even when you're scared, the best response is laughter.Laugh in the face of fear, in the face of what scares you the most.It's the only way to get you through the things that bring you to tears.
Rachel Van Dyken
#47. The best way to choose the wrong door, or never even open the door, is to let fear run the show. When you reflect on any big-ticket decision you have made on the basis of fear and anxiety, you can almost guarantee you made the wrong decision.
Ramani Durvasula
#48. As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.
Ariel Sharon
#49. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality
Jeff Buckley
#50. Mind can be your best friend or worst enemy.
Kabira
#51. Faith smothers your fear of the unknown. Faith allows you to take risks. Faith is the stuff of "leap and the net will appear." Faith is your best buddy when you're scared shitless.
Jen Sincero
#52. The antidote to fear is trust, and we all have a desire to find something to trust in an uncertain world. Fear and trust are powerful forces, and while they are not opposites, exactly, trust is the best tool for driving out fear.
Ed Catmull
#53. When you trust your own abilities and those of the people around you, you overcome fear. And when the people you lead trust themselves and you - that you have their best interests at heart and are authentic - is when you and they will achieve the most.
Phil Dourado
#54. I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.
Nathan Hale
#55. Fear is contagious. Fortunately, so is courage. Learning to become fearless will touch everyone around you, and best of all, you'll find it's a gift that keeps on giving.
Michelle Aguilar
#56. The votes elected officials make should be based on the best interests of the American people, not the fear of retribution when shadowy groups spend millions of dollars on negative advertisements.
Bernie Sanders
#57. The only failure one man should fear, is the failure to do his best.
Daniel D. Palmer
#58. Hours of crisis often call for sacrifice. In matters of consequence, when have doubt and fear given the best advice? Why not heed faith, courage, and honor?
Brandon Mull
#59. Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
Sophocles
#60. This is not a time for fear, brethren, but rather a time for faith - a time for each of us who holds the priesthood to be his best self.
Thomas S. Monson
#61. To conquer fear is the best way to gain your self-confidence.
Roy Bennett
#63. I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.
John F. Kerry
#65. Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton
#66. Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it's best to avoid such things altogether.
A.J. Darkholme
#68. Fight, America. You might not want to fight for the things that most others would fight for, like money or notoriety, but fight all the same.
Whatever it is that you want, America, go after it with all that you have in you.
Keep from letting fear make you settle for second best.
Kiera Cass
#70. As long as your curiosity is greater than your fear, you will move forward!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#71. Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.
Douglas Wood
#72. The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
Susan Sontag
#73. This is how best to effect change. If you reiterate the same fears and the same sensible measures with proper augmentation enough times, even difficult decisions will begin to seem like the only justifiable solutions.
Olli Jalonen
#74. Ultimately, for me, I had an underlying belief or fear that I'm not enough as I am. Sometimes I discover those kinds of thoughts still lurking in my subconscious, and the best thing I can do is show up anyway.
Karla Cheatham Mosley
#75. I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married.
Andy Stanley
#76. you will perhaps miss
the part of you that is gone
but do not fear:
all is for the best in the world
and soon you will not realize it is gone:
you have either forgotten it entirely or
it has come back
alive
Tah The Trickster
#77. Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.
Adolf Hitler
#78. Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#79. Yes here I am doing what I do best; and that's taking a selfie. People make fun of me but the reality is if I didn't take them you would never see me as I want to be seen. I'm a difficult subject and my greatest fear is dying and someone finding my phone and the hundreds upon hundreds of selfies.
Sara Quin
#81. As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
Alice Walker
#82. The best way to foster creativity is to help people communicate in a way that instills confidence, not fear.
Pearl Zhu
#83. The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.
Tess Gerritsen
#84. At their best, at their most creative, science and engineering are attributes of liberty-noble expressions of man's God-given right to investigate and explore the universe without fear of social or political or religious reprisals.
David Sarnoff
#85. It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
Abraham H. Maslow
#86. Make peace with the fear of defeat ... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.
Brian Stann
#87. While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.
Saint Augustine
#88. I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.
Sarah Dessen
#89. My demon is you. My best and worst is about you: how I need you and fear for you, how I fear for myself if I lose you, how I have let myself be defined by you.
Danielle Younge-Ullman
#90. Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.
Thomas Jefferson
#91. Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.
Patrick Rothfuss
#92. Don't fear sharing your best ideas online: 1) Competition already knows what you are up to 2) People like leaders not followers.
David Meerman Scott
#93. You're also good at protecting and as such you became the woman you needed to be to protect the best part of yourself. The submissive little girl within who wants to play and trust and love and be loved in return without fear. Rene Tanner, Reclaimed Surrender
Riley Murphy
#94. Thy best of rest is sleep,
And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st
Thy death, which is no more.
William Shakespeare
#95. he hadn't killed or shagged even one single person in front of me - which I felt was a rather good indication of his superior character.
Hettie Ivers
#96. If you can't sublimate your fear of mortality into sex with your best friend, what's it there for?
Justin Taylor
#97. If they're not going to respect you, then they best damn well fear you.
Carroll Bryant
#98. No longer forward or behind
I look in hope or fear,
But grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now and here.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#99. Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.
Sarah Parish
#100. Reading a book that challenges you is the best way to practice facing real-world fears.
Carla H. Krueger
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