Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Craig, Roger

Best Quotes about Fear

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Bible

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Seneca

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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

Renard, Jules

10.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

11.

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

Dryden, John

12.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

13.

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

14.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

15.

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

16.

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

Edmund Burke

17.

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

18.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

Parsons, Wendell

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

23.

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

Nightingale, Florence

24.

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

Brown, Les

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

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

29.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

35.

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

36.

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

37.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

38.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

39.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

40.

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

Seneca

41.

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

42.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

43.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

45.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

46.

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

Kempis, Thomas

47.

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

Kafka, Franz

48.

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