Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Hoffer, Eric

2.

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

Craig, Roger

3.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

4.

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

Ann Radcliffe

5.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

6.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

7.

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

8.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

9.

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

Akhenaton

10.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

11.

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

12.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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

Kempis, Thomas

14.

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

Foreman, Ed

15.

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

16.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

17.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

18.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

19.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

21.

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

22.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

23.

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Francis Quarles

27.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

28.

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.

29.

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

Axiom, Grandma

30.

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

Eric Schmidt

31.

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

32.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Dryden, John

36.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

37.

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