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.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

2.

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

3.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

4.

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

Paul, Jean

5.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

6.

He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

7.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

8.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

9.

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

10.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

11.

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

Edmund Burke

12.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

Bryant, Jean

15.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

16.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

17.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

18.

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

19.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

21.

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

22.

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

23.

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

Proverb, Moorish

24.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

26.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

27.

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

Johnson, John

28.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

29.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

31.

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.

32.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

33.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

34.

God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

35.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

36.

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

37.

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

Parsons, Wendell

38.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

39.

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

40.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

41.

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

42.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

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

44.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

45.

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

46.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

47.

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

48.

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

49.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

50.

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