Top 97 Fear Causes Quotes
#1. The root meaning of phobo, the Greek term for fear, is "flight." That's the nature of fear. Fear causes us to run away from things that frighten us. And fear becomes sinful when it causes us to run away from the things God has commanded us to do. In
Wayne A. Mack
#2. Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
Thucydides
#4. If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new.
Andy Stanley
#5. Only love can free us from fear. Fear causes us to cower in the shadows; Love allows us to dance in the sunlight.
Donald L. Hicks
#6. Fear causes the greatest changes, when you think about it. Fear is a monumental force.
Deb Caletti
#7. Love seems to open and expand us right down to the cellular level, while fear causes us to contract and withdraw into ourselves.
Sharon Salzberg
#9. Her amber eyes burned into mine with all the hate and loathing she could muster. Underneath, though, she was terrified. Hate and loathing didn't bother me, but fear was a powerful emotion. Fear causes the dog to bite and Roze was one bitch.
Maria V. Snyder
#10. Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.
Fran Tarkenton
#11. Fear ... " I uncrossed her arms and linked my fingers with hers. "Is what makes us feel alive. Fear causes our blood vessels to constrict, and then the amygdala, a tiny almond shaped part of our brain, sends signals to our nervous system. The signal says run or fight.
Rachel Van Dyken
#12. Fear causes problems in your life because it fogs the lens through which you see yourself and your world.
Kimberly Giles
#13. Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.
Patrick Swayze
#14. Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.
Louis De Bernieres
#15. The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
William Hazlitt
#16. Can we quantify failure in degrees and say, 'on a 10 point scale this failure causes this much pain?' Extremely difficult.
Anup Kochhar
#17. You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.
Winston Churchill
#18. What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.
J. F. C. Fuller
#19. Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
Freya Stark
#20. Don't fear the nighttime, cause the monsters know that you're divine. Don't fear the sunshine, cause everything's better in the summertime
Michael Franti
#21. When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
Byron Katie
#22. Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
Swami Vivekananda
#23. It is that same fear, the fear of ostracism that causes people to conform
and not question commonly accepted opinions or popular trends.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#24. I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it only causes me pain.
L.A. Meyer
#25. A man who causes fear cannot be
free from fear.
Epicurus
#26. Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.
Bruce Lee
#27. Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it.
Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
#28. All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
Gautama Buddha
#29. The Cause that caused a Fear need not appear again. There for not fear about Fear.
Purushothaman Kollam
#30. A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.
Simon Sinek
#31. More often than not it's this fear of losing people and this attempt to keep people in the church that causes pastors to neglect seeking the presence of God
Sunday Adelaja
#32. A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
Francis Bacon
#33. The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.
Sam Kean
#34. It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.
Carl Jung
#35. One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
Miguel De Cervantes
#36. Both fear and love might cause obedience, but only love causes joy.
Jefferson Bethke
#37. It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric.
Richard Rodgers
#38. Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in every land. The fearful by nature would compose an aristocracy, the hopeful by nature a democracy, were all other causes of divergence done away.
Harriet Martineau
#39. You can't be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live
Chester Bennington
#40. Fear is something that really causes the people not to ascend within the spiritual and physical realm. Once you have Jah as a shield and a guide, you got to arm yourself and nothing can you any harm.
Sizzla
#41. So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.
Robert Kiyosaki
#42. Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#43. Fear and failure are always present. Accept them as part of life and learn how to manage these realities. Be scared, but keep going. Being scared is usually transient. It will pass. If you fail, fix the causes and keep going.
Colin Powell
#44. Fear is the ultimate cause of failure and disappointment.
Emmet Fox
#45. When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.
Haniel Long
#46. The greatest cause of human financial struggle is the fear of losing money.
Robert Kiyosaki
#47. Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.
Epicurus
#48. There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is present ... What is it that causes some men to act so hastily and so cruelly? It cannot be that we are so powerful. Is it so much to ask that the poorest people of the land have a measure of justice?
Cesar Chavez
#49. That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die.
Nina Simone
#50. See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.
Giordano Bruno
#51. Seek comfort in the warmth of the morality of your choosing. Not in the depravity and fear of lost causes, in which you should turn away, before it sees you, as well.
- Plight, 2015
Don Swann II
#52. The greatest problem of human life is fear. It is fear that robs us of
happiness. It is fear that causes us to settle for far less than we are
capable of. It is fear that is the root cause of negative emotions,
unhappiness and problems in human relationships.
Brian Tracy
#53. All suffering is caused by the illusion of separateness, which generates fear and self-hatred, which eventually causes illness. You are the master of your life. You can do much more than you thought you could, including cure yourself of a "terminal illness".
Barbara Brennan
#55. I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But it's our actions when faced with temptation that define who we are. It's our courage in admitting what we've done wrong that makes us forgivable.
Gena Showalter
#56. The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#57. Do the tasks that causes you the most fear, anxiety, or stress - and get over it.
Brian Tracy
#58. Side effect of overemphasizing the importance of personal security in your life is that it can cause you to live reactively.
Steve Pavlina
#59. Indeed, a climate of fear is not one that encourages reflection. However, it is my belief that, instead of using that fear as an excuse, we should recognize it as one of the prime causes of the current situation and try to find a remedy for it.
Albert Camus
#60. Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
Baruch Spinoza
#61. Unbelief, which causes fear, always limits God's use of a life.
Tim LaHaye
#62. Being killed for Allan's cause is a great honor achieved by only those who are the elite of the nation. We love this kind of death for Allah's cause as much as you like to live. We have nothing to fear for. It is something we wish for.
Osama Bin Laden
#63. Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#64. There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.
Michael Crichton
#65. Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth.
Horace Fletcher
#66. Excellent,' said one of the Sanzas. "Soon he'll be fat, and we can butcher him like all the others for a Penance Day roast."
"What my brother means to say," said the other twin, "is that all the others died of purely natural causes, and you have nothing to fear from us. Now have some more bread.
Scott Lynch
#67. Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.
Laozi
#68. Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief.
Will Durant
#69. True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we're fighting - actively fighting something else. But if you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.
Lupe Fiasco
#70. Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.
Euripides
#71. Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion
Thomas Hobbes
#72. Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#73. The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
Ramana Maharshi
#74. Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#75. We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
Harry S. Truman
#76. it's being branded a failure that causes the most pain; when 'failure' changes from being a verb to becoming a noun.
Anup Kochhar
#77. Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.
Ingrid Newkirk
#78. It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.
Cyril Connolly
#79. Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
Franz Grillparzer
#80. Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating.
Mason Cooley
#81. The soul that has learned the blessed secret of seeing God's hand in all that concerns it, cannot be a prey to fear, it looks beyond all second causes, straight into the heart and will of God, and rests content, because He rules.
Susannah Spurgeon
#82. The differences between the conservative and the radical seem to
spring mainly from their attitude toward the future. Fear of the
future causes us to lean against and cling to the present, while faith
in the future renders us receptive to change.
Eric Hoffer
#83. It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.
Otto Weininger
#84. What you give meaning to is what causes your emotion. Before you react know why you are giving something so much energy or fear. When you begin to understand why you give things meaning you can begin to change how you react and why you do what you do.
Shannon L. Alder
#85. Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
Eckhart Tolle
#86. The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.
Alan Cohen
#87. Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
Byron Katie
#88. Our thoughts and desires are based in hope, but our behaviors are based in fear. This misalignment often causes a feeling of hopelessness and continues the cycle of feeding outdated ideologies and Guru genres offering gimmicks to anesthetize the pain.
Steve Maraboli
#89. Stress comes from unknown fear. To reduce stress, love what you do and be who you are.
Debasish Mridha
#90. If you can create a weapon that causes enough fear the fear itself can cause damage that's as paralyzing and destructive as any physical device like a bomb or a laser gun. Fear can make decent people behave irrationally and violently.
Patricia Cornwell
#91. Praise and disgrace cause fear.
Laozi
#92. It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear.
Gautama Buddha
#94. And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts ... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.
Billy Joel
#95. We [The United States] believe the Iranian people want a future of freedom and human rights: the right to vote, to run for office, to express their views without fear and to pursue political causes. We would welcome the progress, prosperity and freedom of the Iranian people.
Condoleezza Rice
#96. The FEAR of becoming dehydrated causes dehydration. As with so many things in our life, it is because we KNOW it is a problem that it is a problem.
Gerry Lindgren
#97. You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.
Dean Koontz
