Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

2.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

6.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Eric Schmidt

10.

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

11.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

12.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

13.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

14.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

15.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

16.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

17.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Anderson, Marian

21.

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

Renard, Jules

22.

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

Theodosia Garrison

23.

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

Carnegie, Dale

24.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

25.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Fear is what kills us.

29.

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

Davis, Elmer

30.

God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

31.

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

32.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

35.

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

36.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

37.

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

Ann Radcliffe

38.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

39.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

40.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

41.

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

Hoffer, Eric

42.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

43.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

48.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

49.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

50.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb