Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Downes, Donald

2.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

3.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

4.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

5.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

6.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

7.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

8.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

9.

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

Ann Radcliffe

10.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

11.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

12.

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

13.

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Eric Schmidt

15.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

16.

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

17.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

18.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

19.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

20.

Fear is what kills us.

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

24.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

25.

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

26.

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

27.

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

Parsons, Wendell

28.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

30.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

31.

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.

32.

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

33.

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

34.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

35.

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

Akhenaton

36.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

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

George Carlin

38.

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

Seneca

39.

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

40.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

41.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

42.

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

43.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

44.

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

Smith, Frederick

45.

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

46.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

50.

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

Bryant, Jean