Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

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Best Quotes about Fear

1.

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

2.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

3.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

4.

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

5.

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

6.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

7.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

8.

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

9.

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

10.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

11.

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

12.

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

13.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

14.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

15.

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

Paul, Jean

16.

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

Johnson, John

17.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

18.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

19.

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

Bryant, Jean

20.

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

Akhenaton

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

23.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Foreman, Ed

27.

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

Edmund Burke

28.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

29.

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

Bradbury, Ray

30.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

31.

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

32.

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

33.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

34.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

35.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

36.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

37.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

38.

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

39.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

40.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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.

42.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

43.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

44.

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

45.

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

Smith, Frederick

46.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

47.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

48.

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