Motivational Quotes

Fear

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

2.

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

3.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

4.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

5.

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

Patton, George S.

6.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

7.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

8.

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

9.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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

Brown, Les

12.

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

13.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

14.

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

15.

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

Craig, Roger

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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

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

18.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

19.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

21.

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

22.

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

23.

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

Ferdinand Foch

24.

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.

25.

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

26.

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

27.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

28.

He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

29.

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

30.

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

Smith, Frederick

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

33.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

34.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

35.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

36.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

37.

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

38.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

39.

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

40.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

41.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

42.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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