Motivational Quotes

Fear

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

2.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

3.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

4.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

5.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

6.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

7.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

8.

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

9.

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

10.

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

Ferdinand Foch

11.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

12.

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

13.

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

Bryant, Jean

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.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

16.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

18.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

19.

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

Kafka, Franz

20.

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

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

23.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

24.

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

25.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

Davis, Elmer

27.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

28.

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

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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

30.

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

Patton, George S.

31.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

32.

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

33.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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

35.

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

36.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

37.

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.

38.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

39.

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

40.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

41.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

42.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

43.

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

Bradbury, Ray

44.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

45.

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

Proverb, Moorish

46.

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

Johnson, John

47.

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

Akhenaton

48.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

49.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

50.

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

Nightingale, Florence