Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Smith, Frederick

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

2.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

3.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

4.

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

5.

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

6.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

7.

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

Edmund Burke

8.

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

Proverb, Moorish

9.

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

Anderson, Marian

10.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

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

Bible

15.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

16.

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

17.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

18.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

19.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

20.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

21.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

22.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

23.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

24.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

27.

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

28.

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

29.

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

32.

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

33.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

34.

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

35.

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

36.

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

Francis Quarles

37.

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

38.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

39.

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

40.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

41.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

43.

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