Motivational Quotes

Fear

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

- Berryman, John

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

4.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

5.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

6.

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

7.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

8.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

Bradbury, Ray

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

17.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

18.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

19.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

20.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

21.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

22.

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

Ferdinand Foch

23.

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.

24.

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

Hoffer, Eric

25.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

26.

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

Downes, Donald

27.

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.

28.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

30.

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

31.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

32.

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

George Carlin

33.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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.

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

Brown, Les

36.

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

Epictetus

37.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

38.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

39.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

40.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

41.

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

Akhenaton

42.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

44.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

46.

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

Ann Radcliffe

47.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

48.

Fear is what kills us.

49.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

50.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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