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

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

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Thompson, Dorothy

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kafka, Franz

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

King, Billie Jean

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

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

11.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

12.

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

13.

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

Emily Dickinson

14.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

15.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

16.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

17.

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

18.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

19.

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

20.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

21.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

22.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

26.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

29.

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

Patton, George S.

30.

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

31.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

32.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

37.

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

38.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

39.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

40.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

43.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

44.

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

45.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

46.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

47.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

48.

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo