Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

2.

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

3.

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

4.

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

George Carlin

5.

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

6.

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

Theodosia Garrison

7.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

8.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

9.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

10.

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

11.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

King, Billie Jean

15.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

16.

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

17.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

18.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

19.

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

20.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

22.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

23.

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

Brown, Les

24.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

25.

Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

26.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

27.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

28.

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

Dale, Stan

29.

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

Ann Radcliffe

30.

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

31.

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

Edmund Burke

32.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

33.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

34.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

35.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

36.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

41.

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

Renard, Jules

42.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

43.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

44.

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

Francis Quarles

45.

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

46.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

47.

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

Patton, George S.

48.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

49.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

50.

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