Motivational Quotes

Fear

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

- Nightingale, Florence

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

2.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

3.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

4.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

5.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

6.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

7.

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

Brown, Les

8.

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.

9.

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

10.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

11.

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

12.

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

Ann Radcliffe

13.

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

Davis, Elmer

14.

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

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

17.

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

18.

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

19.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

20.

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

Eric Hoffer

21.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

22.

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

23.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

24.

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

25.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

28.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

29.

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

King, Billie Jean

30.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

32.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

33.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

35.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

36.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

37.

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

Seneca

38.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

39.

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

Kempis, Thomas

40.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

42.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

43.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

44.

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

45.

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

Eric Schmidt

46.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

47.

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

48.

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

Ferdinand Foch

49.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

50.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha