Motivational Quotes

Fear

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.

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

2.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

3.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

4.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

5.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

6.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

12.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

13.

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

Davis, Elmer

14.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Nightingale, Earl

18.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

19.

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

Brown, Les

20.

"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

21.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

22.

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

23.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

24.

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

25.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

26.

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

27.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

28.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

29.

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.

30.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

31.

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

Axiom, Grandma

32.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

33.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

35.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

36.

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

37.

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

Proverb, Moorish

38.

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

Theodosia Garrison

39.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

40.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

41.

Fear is what kills us.

42.

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

43.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

44.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

45.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

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

Patton, George S.

47.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

48.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

49.

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

50.

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

Bradley, Francis H.