Motivational Quotes

Fear

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

- King, Billie Jean

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

2.

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

3.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

4.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

5.

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

6.

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

7.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

8.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

9.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

10.

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

Smith, Frederick

11.

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

12.

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

Emily Dickinson

13.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

16.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

17.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

18.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

20.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

21.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

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

Johnson, John

23.

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

24.

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

Nightingale, Earl

25.

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

26.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

27.

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

Davis, Elmer

28.

He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

29.

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

Kempis, Thomas

30.

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

31.

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

Downes, Donald

32.

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

33.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

34.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

36.

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

Eric Schmidt

37.

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

Anderson, Marian

38.

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

39.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

40.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

41.

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

Dale, Stan

42.

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

Brown, Les

43.

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

Northcote, James

44.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

47.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

48.

Fear is what kills us.

49.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

50.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.