Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

2.

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

Theodosia Garrison

3.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

4.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

5.

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

Foreman, Ed

6.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

7.

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

8.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

9.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

12.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

13.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

14.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

15.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

16.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

18.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

20.

Fear is what kills us.

21.

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

Anderson, Marian

22.

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

Hill, Napoleon

23.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

24.

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

Ann Radcliffe

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

28.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

29.

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

30.

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

Ferdinand Foch

31.

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

Taylor Swift

32.

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

Nightingale, Earl

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

35.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

36.

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

37.

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

38.

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

39.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

40.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

42.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

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

44.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

45.

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

46.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

47.

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

48.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

49.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

50.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale