Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

5.

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

Axiom, Grandma

6.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

7.

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

8.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

9.

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

10.

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

11.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

12.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

13.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

14.

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

15.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

16.

Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

17.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

18.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

19.

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

20.

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

Smith, Frederick

21.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

22.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

25.

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

26.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

27.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

28.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

29.

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

30.

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

31.

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

32.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

33.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

35.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

36.

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

37.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

38.

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

39.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

40.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

41.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

42.

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

43.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

44.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

45.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

46.

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

Bible

47.

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

48.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

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

50.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher