Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

2.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

3.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

4.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

5.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

6.

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

Edmund Burke

7.

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

Northcote, James

8.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

9.

Fear is what kills us.

10.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

11.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

12.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

13.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

15.

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

Seneca

16.

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

Nightingale, Florence

17.

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

18.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

20.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

21.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

22.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

23.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

24.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Nightingale, Earl

32.

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

Theodosia Garrison

33.

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

Taylor Swift

34.

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

Foreman, Ed

35.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

36.

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

Renard, Jules

37.

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

Hoffer, Eric

38.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

39.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

40.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

41.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

42.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

43.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

45.

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

Johnson, Samuel

46.

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

47.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

Seneca

49.

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

Francis Quarles

50.

God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.