Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

- Downes, Donald

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Bradbury, Ray

2.

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

3.

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

Foreman, Ed

4.

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

Nightingale, Florence

5.

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

Ann Radcliffe

6.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

7.

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

Kafka, Franz

8.

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

9.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

10.

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

11.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

12.

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

Seneca

13.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

19.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

20.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

21.

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

Craig, Roger

22.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

24.

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

25.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.

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

27.

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

28.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

29.

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

Theodosia Garrison

30.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

31.

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

Proverb, Moorish

32.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

33.

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

Parsons, Wendell

34.

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

35.

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

36.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

37.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

38.

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

Hoffer, Eric

39.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

40.

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

41.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

42.

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

43.

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

44.

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

Francis Quarles

45.

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

Kempis, Thomas

46.

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

Patton, George S.

47.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

48.

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

Brown, Les

49.

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

Dyson, Freeman

50.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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