Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

2.

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

Ferdinand Foch

3.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

4.

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

5.

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

Hill, Napoleon

6.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

7.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

8.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

9.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

11.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

12.

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

13.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

14.

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

Foreman, Ed

15.

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

Nightingale, Florence

16.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

17.

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

Johnson, John

18.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

19.

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

Eric Schmidt

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

24.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

25.

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

Bradbury, Ray

26.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

27.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

28.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

29.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

30.

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

Francis Quarles

31.

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

32.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

33.

Fear is what kills us.

34.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

35.

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

Epictetus

36.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

37.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

38.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

39.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

40.

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.

41.

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

Craig, Roger

42.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

43.

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

44.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

45.

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

46.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

47.

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

48.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

49.

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

Northcote, James