Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- King, Billie Jean

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

2.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

3.

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

Seneca

4.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

5.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

6.

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

7.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

8.

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

9.

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

Craig, Roger

10.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

12.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

13.

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

20.

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

21.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

22.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

23.

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

24.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

25.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

26.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

27.

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

28.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

29.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

30.

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

Dale, Stan

31.

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

32.

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

33.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

34.

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

George Carlin

35.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

36.

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

37.

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

38.

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

39.

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

40.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

41.

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

42.

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

Anderson, Marian

43.

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

Davis, Elmer

44.

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