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

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

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

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

Francis Quarles

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

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Maclaren, Alexander

10.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

11.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

Theodosia Garrison

13.

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

14.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

15.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

16.

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

17.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

18.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

19.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

Dale, Stan

21.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

22.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

23.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

24.

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

25.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

26.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

27.

Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

30.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

31.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

32.

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

33.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

35.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

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

37.

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

Kempis, Thomas

38.

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

39.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

40.

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

41.

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

Nightingale, Earl

42.

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

Dryden, John

43.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

44.

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

Foreman, Ed

45.

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

Bradbury, Ray

46.

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

Ann Radcliffe

47.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

48.

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.

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Taylor Swift