Motivational Quotes

Fear

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

- Bataille, Georges

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Davis, Elmer

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

6.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

7.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

8.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

9.

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

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

13.

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

Eric Schmidt

14.

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

15.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

16.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

17.

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

18.

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

19.

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

Brown, Les

20.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

21.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

23.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

24.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

25.

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

Dale, Stan

26.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

27.

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

28.

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

Downes, Donald

29.

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

30.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

31.

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

32.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

33.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

34.

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

Bryant, Jean

35.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

37.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

38.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

39.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

40.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

42.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

Foreman, Ed

44.

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

45.

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

46.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

47.

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

Eric Hoffer

48.

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

49.

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

Smith, Frederick

50.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.