Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

2.

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

Anderson, Marian

3.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

4.

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

Paul, Jean

5.

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.

6.

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

7.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

8.

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

Nightingale, Earl

9.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

10.

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

11.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

12.

Fear is what kills us.

13.

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

Eric Schmidt

14.

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

15.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

16.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

17.

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

18.

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

19.

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

20.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

21.

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

22.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

23.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

25.

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

Renard, Jules

26.

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

27.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

29.

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

Craig, Roger

30.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

31.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

32.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

34.

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.

35.

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

37.

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

38.

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

Northcote, James

39.

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

Ann Radcliffe

40.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

41.

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

42.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

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

44.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

45.

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

46.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

47.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

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