Motivational Quotes

Fear

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.

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

2.

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

3.

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

Eric Hoffer

4.

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

5.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

6.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

7.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

8.

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

9.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

10.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

13.

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.

14.

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

Theodosia Garrison

15.

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

16.

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

Johnson, John

17.

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

18.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

19.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

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

21.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

22.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

23.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

24.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

25.

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

George Carlin

26.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

29.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

30.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

31.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

32.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

33.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

34.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

35.

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

Brown, Les

36.

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

Northcote, James

37.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

38.

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

Dyson, Freeman

39.

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

Bradbury, Ray

40.

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

Patton, George S.

41.

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

42.

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

43.

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

Dale, Stan

44.

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

Ann Radcliffe

45.

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

46.

He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

47.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

49.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

50.

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