Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Nightingale, Florence

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Anderson, Marian

2.

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

3.

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

Parsons, Wendell

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

6.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

7.

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

8.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

9.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

11.

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

12.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

13.

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.

14.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

15.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

17.

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

Johnson, John

18.

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

19.

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

20.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

21.

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

Dryden, John

22.

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

23.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

24.

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

25.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

26.

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

Akhenaton

27.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

28.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

29.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

30.

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!!

31.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

32.

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

King, Billie Jean

33.

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

Bradbury, Ray

34.

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

Edmund Burke

35.

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

36.

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

Paul, Jean

37.

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

Nightingale, Florence

38.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

39.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

40.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

41.

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

Downes, Donald

42.

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

Theodosia Garrison

43.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

44.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

45.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

46.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

48.

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

49.

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

50.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.