Motivational Quotes

Fear

The thing I fear most is fear.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Fear

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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

2.

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

Proverb, Moorish

3.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

4.

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

Dryden, John

5.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

6.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

7.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

8.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

9.

"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

10.

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

Paul, Jean

11.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

12.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

13.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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.

15.

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

16.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

17.

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

Nightingale, Earl

18.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

23.

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

24.

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

Smith, Frederick

25.

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

26.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

29.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

30.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

34.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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.

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

Kempis, Thomas

37.

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

Carnegie, Dale

38.

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

39.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

40.

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

41.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

42.

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

43.

Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

44.

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

Downes, Donald

45.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

46.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

47.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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.

50.

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