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.

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

2.

God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

3.

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

4.

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

5.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

6.

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

7.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

8.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

9.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Dale, Stan

13.

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

Ann Radcliffe

14.

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

15.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

16.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

17.

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

18.

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

Taylor Swift

19.

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

20.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

21.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

22.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

23.

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

Smith, Frederick

24.

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

Bradbury, Ray

25.

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

Craig, Roger

26.

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

Renard, Jules

27.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

28.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

29.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

30.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

31.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

32.

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

33.

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.

34.

Fear is what kills us.

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

37.

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

38.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

40.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

45.

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

46.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

47.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

48.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

49.

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

50.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale