Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Johnson, Samuel

2.

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

Patton, George S.

3.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

4.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

5.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

6.

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

Renard, Jules

7.

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

8.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

9.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

10.

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

11.

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

Dyson, Freeman

12.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

13.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

14.

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

15.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

16.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

17.

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

Akhenaton

18.

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

19.

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

Dale, Stan

20.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

21.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

25.

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

Ferdinand Foch

26.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

27.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

28.

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

29.

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

Theodosia Garrison

30.

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

31.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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

Kempis, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

35.

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

Foreman, Ed

36.

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

37.

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

Francis Quarles

38.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

39.

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

40.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

41.

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

42.

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

Bradbury, Ray

43.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

45.

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

King, Billie Jean

46.

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.

47.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

48.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

49.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

50.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.