Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Parsons, Wendell

2.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

3.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

4.

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

5.

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

Dryden, John

6.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

10.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

11.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

12.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

13.

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

Bradbury, Ray

14.

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.

15.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

16.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

Eric Schmidt

18.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

19.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

20.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Bible

24.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

27.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

28.

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

29.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

30.

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.

31.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

32.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

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

34.

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

35.

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

36.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

38.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

39.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

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

41.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

43.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

44.

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

45.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

46.

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