Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- King, Billie Jean

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

2.

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.

3.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

4.

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

Bradbury, Ray

5.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

6.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

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

8.

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

Dale, Stan

9.

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

10.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

11.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

13.

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.

14.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

15.

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.

Gaye, Marvin

16.

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

Davis, Elmer

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

19.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

20.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

22.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

23.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

24.

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

25.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

26.

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

27.

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

Smith, Frederick

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.

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

Dryden, John

30.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

32.

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

Brown, Les

33.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

37.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

39.

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

40.

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

41.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

42.

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

43.

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

Ferdinand Foch

44.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

45.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

46.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

47.

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

48.

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

Emily Dickinson

49.

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

50.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William