Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

- Helen Mirren

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Kafka, Franz

2.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

3.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

4.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

5.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

6.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

8.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

9.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

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

11.

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

Dale, Stan

12.

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

Dryden, John

13.

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!!

14.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

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

Francis Quarles

16.

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

17.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

18.

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

Epictetus

19.

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

20.

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

Ann Radcliffe

21.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

22.

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

23.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

24.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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.

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

Ferdinand Foch

27.

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

Proverb, Moorish

28.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

29.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

30.

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

Seneca

31.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

32.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

33.

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

34.

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

35.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

36.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

37.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

38.

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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