Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

3.

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

Nightingale, Florence

4.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

5.

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

Eric Schmidt

6.

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

Johnson, John

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

10.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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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

12.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

13.

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

Brown, Les

14.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

15.

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.

16.

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

George Carlin

17.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

18.

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

Kafka, Franz

19.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

20.

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

21.

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

Foreman, Ed

22.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

23.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

24.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

25.

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

26.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

27.

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

Davis, Elmer

28.

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

29.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

30.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

31.

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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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

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

Northcote, James

34.

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

Epictetus

35.

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

36.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.