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.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

2.

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

3.

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

Parsons, Wendell

4.

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

Akhenaton

5.

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

6.

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

Smith, Frederick

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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

8.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

9.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

10.

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.

11.

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

Bradbury, Ray

12.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

13.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

14.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

15.

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

Dale, Stan

16.

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

18.

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

Hill, Napoleon

19.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

23.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

24.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

25.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

26.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

27.

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

Bible

28.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

29.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

30.

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

31.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

32.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

33.

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

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

37.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

38.

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

Northcote, James

39.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

41.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

42.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

43.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

44.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

45.

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

46.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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

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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

49.

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

50.

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