Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is excitement without breath.

- Heller, Robert

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Foreman, Ed

2.

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

3.

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

Francis Quarles

4.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

5.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

6.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

7.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

8.

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

Bradbury, Ray

9.

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

Proverb, Moorish

10.

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

Ferdinand Foch

11.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

12.

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

Brown, Les

13.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

14.

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

Seneca

15.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

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

Johnson, Samuel

17.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

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

19.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

20.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

21.

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.

22.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

23.

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

Kempis, Thomas

24.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

26.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

27.

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

28.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

29.

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

30.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

31.

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

Nightingale, Florence

32.

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

33.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

34.

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

King, Billie Jean

35.

"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

36.

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

37.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

38.

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

Davis, Elmer

39.

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

Eric Hoffer

40.

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.

41.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

43.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

45.

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

46.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

47.

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

48.

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

49.

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

50.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.