Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

2.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

3.

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

Northcote, James

4.

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

Seneca

5.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

7.

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

8.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

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

10.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

13.

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

14.

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

15.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

16.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

17.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

18.

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

19.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

21.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

22.

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

Eric Hoffer

23.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

24.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

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

26.

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

Theodosia Garrison

27.

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

28.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

29.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

30.

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

Bradbury, Ray

31.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

32.

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

33.

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

Francis Quarles

34.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

35.

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

36.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

37.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

38.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

39.

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