Motivational Quotes

Fear

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Bradbury, Ray

2.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

3.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Seneca

7.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

9.

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

10.

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

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

Edmund Burke

12.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

13.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

14.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

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

16.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

17.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

18.

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

19.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

20.

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

21.

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

Theodosia Garrison

22.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

23.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

24.

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

25.

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

Seneca

26.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

27.

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

28.

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

Epictetus

29.

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

Taylor Swift

30.

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

Renard, Jules

31.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

33.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

34.

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

Eric Hoffer

35.

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

36.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

38.

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

39.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

40.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

41.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

42.

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