Motivational Quotes

Fear

The thing I fear most is fear.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Proverb, Moorish

2.

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

3.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

4.

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

5.

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

Davis, Elmer

6.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

7.

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

8.

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

Kafka, Franz

9.

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

12.

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

13.

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

Kempis, Thomas

14.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

15.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

16.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

17.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

18.

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

19.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

20.

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

21.

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

Parsons, Wendell

22.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

23.

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

24.

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

Dyson, Freeman

25.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

26.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

27.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

28.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

29.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

30.

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

Patton, George S.

31.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

32.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

33.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

34.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

35.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

36.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

37.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

40.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Bradbury, Ray

45.

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

46.

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

47.

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

48.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

49.

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

50.

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

Foreman, Ed