Motivational Quotes

Fear

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Foreman, Ed

2.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

3.

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

4.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

5.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

6.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

7.

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

Francis Quarles

8.

He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

9.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

10.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

Nightingale, Earl

12.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

17.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

18.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

19.

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

Seneca

20.

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

21.

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

22.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

23.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

24.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

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

26.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

27.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

28.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

29.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

30.

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

Bradbury, Ray

31.

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.

32.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

33.

Fear is what kills us.

34.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

35.

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Davis, Elmer

38.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

39.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

41.

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

42.

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

Kafka, Franz

43.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

44.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

47.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

48.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

49.

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!!

50.

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