Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

2.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

3.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

4.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

5.

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

Edmund Burke

6.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

7.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

8.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

9.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

10.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

11.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

13.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

14.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

15.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

16.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

17.

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

Akhenaton

18.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

19.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

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

21.

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

Dryden, John

22.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

23.

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

Brown, Les

24.

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

Kafka, Franz

25.

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

26.

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

27.

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

Seneca

28.

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

29.

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

30.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

31.

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

Bible

32.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

33.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Paul, Jean

35.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

36.

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

37.

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

38.

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

Craig, Roger

39.

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

Eric Schmidt

40.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

41.

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

Ann Radcliffe

42.

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

43.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

44.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

45.

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

46.

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

Davis, Elmer

47.

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

Bradbury, Ray

49.

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