Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

2.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

3.

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

Foreman, Ed

4.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

5.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

6.

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

7.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

8.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

9.

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

Emily Dickinson

10.

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

Eric Schmidt

11.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

14.

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

15.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

17.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

18.

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

19.

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

Dale, Stan

20.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

23.

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!!

24.

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

25.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

27.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

28.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

29.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

30.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

31.

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

32.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

33.

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

Axiom, Grandma

34.

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

Nightingale, Florence

35.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Dryden, John

37.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

38.

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

39.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

45.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

46.

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