Motivational Quotes

Fear

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

2.

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

3.

He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

4.

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

Akhenaton

5.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

6.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

7.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

8.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

9.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

10.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

13.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

14.

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

Eric Hoffer

15.

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

16.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

17.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

18.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

19.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

20.

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

21.

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

Kempis, Thomas

22.

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

Edmund Burke

23.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

26.

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

Kafka, Franz

27.

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

28.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

29.

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

30.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

31.

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

Ann Radcliffe

32.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

33.

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

Axiom, Grandma

34.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

36.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

37.

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Carnegie, Dale

42.

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

Anderson, Marian

43.

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

Taylor Swift

44.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

45.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

46.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

47.

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

48.

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

Nightingale, Earl

49.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

50.

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

Ferdinand Foch