Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

2.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

3.

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

5.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

6.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

7.

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

8.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

9.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

10.

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!!

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

14.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

15.

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

16.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

17.

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

18.

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

Bradbury, Ray

19.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

21.

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

22.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

27.

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

Francis Quarles

28.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

29.

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

Akhenaton

30.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

32.

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

33.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

34.

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

35.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

36.

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

Dale, Stan

37.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

38.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

39.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

40.

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

41.

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

Kempis, Thomas

42.

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

Downes, Donald

43.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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

Bryant, Jean

45.

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

46.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

47.

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

Hill, Napoleon

48.

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

49.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

50.

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