Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the biggest motivator.

- Dixon, Bill

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Edmund Burke

2.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

3.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

4.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

5.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

6.

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

7.

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

Bryant, Jean

8.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Ann Radcliffe

12.

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

13.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

14.

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

15.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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

21.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

22.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

23.

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

24.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

26.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

32.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

33.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

34.

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

35.

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

36.

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

37.

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

Foreman, Ed

38.

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

39.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

40.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

41.

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

42.

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

43.

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

Dyson, Freeman

44.

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

45.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

46.

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

47.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

48.

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