Motivational Quotes

Fear

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

- Dale, Stan

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

2.

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

3.

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

4.

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

Shakespeare, William

5.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

6.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

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

8.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

9.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

12.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

13.

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

Bryant, Jean

14.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

15.

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

King, Billie Jean

16.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

17.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Hill, Napoleon

20.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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

George Carlin

22.

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

23.

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

24.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

25.

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

Renard, Jules

26.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

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

28.

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

Nightingale, Florence

29.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

30.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

31.

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

Kafka, Franz

32.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

33.

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

Ann Radcliffe

34.

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

Eric Hoffer

35.

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

36.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

37.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

38.

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

Foreman, Ed

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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

40.

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

41.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

42.

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

43.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

44.

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

45.

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

Bradbury, Ray

46.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

47.

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

Ann Radcliffe

48.

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