Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Ferdinand Foch

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

2.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

3.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

4.

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

5.

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

6.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

7.

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

Axiom, Grandma

8.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

9.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

10.

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

Francis Quarles

11.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

12.

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

Renard, Jules

13.

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

14.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

15.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

17.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

18.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

19.

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

Proverb, Moorish

20.

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

Dale, Stan

21.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

22.

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

Kafka, Franz

23.

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

Ferdinand Foch

24.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

25.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

30.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

31.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

32.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

33.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

34.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

35.

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

King, Billie Jean

36.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

37.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

38.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

41.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

42.

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

Bradbury, Ray

43.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

44.

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

45.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

48.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

49.

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

Foreman, Ed

50.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell