Motivational Quotes

Fear

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Proverb, Moorish

2.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

3.

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

4.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

5.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

6.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

7.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

8.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

9.

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

Kafka, Franz

10.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

11.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

12.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

13.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

14.

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

Brown, Les

15.

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

16.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

17.

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

18.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

19.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

20.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

22.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

23.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

26.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

27.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

28.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

29.

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

Davis, Elmer

30.

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

Bryant, Jean

31.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

32.

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

33.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

34.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

35.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

36.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

37.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

38.

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

Downes, Donald

39.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

40.

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

41.

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

42.

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

43.

God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

44.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

45.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

46.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

47.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

48.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

49.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

50.

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