Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

2.

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.

3.

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

4.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

5.

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.

6.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

7.

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

8.

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

Bradbury, Ray

9.

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

10.

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

Nightingale, Florence

11.

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

12.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

13.

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

Proverb, Moorish

14.

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

15.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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

17.

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

Johnson, Samuel

18.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

23.

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

24.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

25.

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

26.

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

Downes, Donald

27.

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

Eric Hoffer

28.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

29.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

30.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

31.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

32.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

34.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

35.

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

Hill, Napoleon

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

38.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

39.

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

40.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

41.

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

42.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

43.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

44.

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

Dyson, Freeman

45.

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