Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Bradbury, Ray

2.

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

Proverb, Moorish

3.

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

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.

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

George Carlin

6.

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

7.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

8.

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

Theodosia Garrison

9.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

11.

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

Ann Radcliffe

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

20.

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

Nightingale, Florence

21.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

22.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

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

24.

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

Seneca

25.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

26.

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

27.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

28.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

29.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

30.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

Patton, George S.

32.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

33.

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

34.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

35.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

36.

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

37.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

38.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

40.

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

Emily Dickinson

41.

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

42.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

43.

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

44.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

45.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

46.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

47.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.