Motivational Quotes

Fear

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

2.

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

3.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

4.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

5.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

6.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

7.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

8.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

9.

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

11.

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

12.

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

Brown, Les

13.

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

14.

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

Anderson, Marian

15.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

16.

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

Craig, Roger

17.

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

Bryant, Jean

18.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

19.

Fear is what kills us.

20.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

21.

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.

22.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

23.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

24.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

25.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

26.

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

27.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

29.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

30.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

31.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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

33.

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

34.

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

35.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

36.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

37.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

38.

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

39.

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

40.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

41.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

42.

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

43.

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

44.

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

Parsons, Wendell

45.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

46.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

47.

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.