Fear and Anxiety Quotes
Top 30 Fear and Anxiety Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)
If you measure success in terms of praise and criticism, your anxiety will be endless.
- Lao Tzu (c604-c531 BC) Chinese
philosopher, pictured right.
No 2
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear,
(I John 4:18 in the Bible).
- St. John, a disciple of Jesus.
So St. Francis of
Assisi (1181-1226), pictured right, said:
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
No 3
Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
- Rosa Parks (1913-2005), American
civil rights campaigner, pictured right.
No 4
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the
face.
- Eleanor
Roosevelt (1884–1962), American human rights campaigner, pictured right.
No 5
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey,
- Ralph Waldo
Emerson (1803-82), American philosopher, pictured right.
No 6
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945),
American president, pictured right.
Henry David
Thoreau (1817-62), the American philosopher, pictured right, said similarly:
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear
No 7
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- Bertrand
Russell (1872-1970) English philosopher, pictured right.
No 8
Ignorance is the parent of fear.,
(Ishmael in Moby-Dick)
- Herman Melville (1819-91), American writer, pictured right
No 9
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear,
- Florence
Nightingale (1820-1910), English nurse, pictured right.
No 10
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), pictured right,
South African leader.
Plato (427-347 BC), the Greek philosopher,
pictured right,agrees:
Courage is knowing not to fear
No 11
Fear kills the soul.
- Mahatma ( Mohandas)
Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian leader and philosopher, pictured right.
No 12
My apprehensions come in crowds; I dread the rustling of the grass; the very shadows of the clouds have power to
shake me as they pass.
(from the 1897 poem, The Affliction of Margaret)
- William
Wordsworth (1770-1850), pictured right, English poet.
No 13
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself,
(Dumbledore in the 1997 novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)
- J. K. Rowling (1965- ), pictured
right, English writer.
No 14
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the
beginning of wisdom
- Bertrand
Russell (1872-1970), English philosopher (pictured right).
No 15
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
- Benedict (or Baruch)
Spinoza (1632-77) Dutch philosopher, pictured right.
No 16
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face
my fear.
(from the 1965 novel Dune)
- Frank Herbert (1920-86) pictured right, American writer.
No 17
When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors.
(Lady Macduff in Macbeth)
- William
Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right
Charmian in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra also
comments:
In time we hate that which we often fear.
No 18
Tired of living and scared of dying.
(from the song Ol' Man River in the musical Show Boat)
- Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960), pictured right, American lyricist
No 19
He has no hope that never had a fear.
(from the poem Truth)
- William Cowper (1731–1800) English poet, pictured right.
No 20
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) Northern Irish writer, pictured right.
No 21
Fear is the passion of slaves.
- Patrick Henry (1736-99), American
revolutionary politician, pictured right,
No 22
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
- Dale Carnegie (1888-1955), American personal development
expert (pictured right).
No 23
Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
- Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976), pictured
right, British general.
No 24
He who has truly overthrown his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle (384-322 BC),
Greek philosopher, pictured right.
No 25
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great
calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
- Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher, pictured
right.
No 26
Where there is peace and meditation, there is
neither anxiety nor doubt.
-St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), Italian monk
and philosopher, pictured right.
No 27
Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation.
- Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), pictured right,
South African leader.
No 28
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Seneca (c.4 BC-65 AD), Roman
philosopher, pictured right.
No 29
Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
- Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962),
American movie star, pictured right.
No 30
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
- Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953), pictured right, American playwright.
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