Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear the man who fears you.

- Proverb, Hasidic

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

2.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

3.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

4.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

5.

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

6.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

7.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

8.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

9.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

11.

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

12.

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

Ann Radcliffe

13.

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

14.

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

Craig, Roger

15.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

16.

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

Proverb, Moorish

17.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

18.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

19.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

20.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

21.

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

Davis, Elmer

22.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

23.

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

Parsons, Wendell

24.

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

25.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

26.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

27.

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.

28.

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

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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

30.

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Eric Schmidt

34.

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

35.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

36.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

37.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

38.

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

Foreman, Ed

39.

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

Smith, Frederick

40.

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

41.

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

42.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

43.

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

Nightingale, Earl

44.

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

45.

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