Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

2.

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

3.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

4.

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

5.

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

6.

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

7.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

8.

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

Kafka, Franz

9.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

10.

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

Renard, Jules

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.

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

13.

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

14.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

15.

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

16.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

17.

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

Taylor Swift

18.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

21.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

22.

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

Kempis, Thomas

23.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

24.

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

25.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

26.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

28.

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

29.

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

30.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

31.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

33.

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

Dyson, Freeman

34.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

35.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

36.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

37.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

38.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

39.

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

40.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

41.

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

42.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

43.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

44.

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

Anderson, Marian

45.

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

46.

Fear is what kills us.

47.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

48.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

49.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata