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.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

2.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

6.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

7.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

8.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

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

11.

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

Bradbury, Ray

12.

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

13.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

14.

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

15.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

16.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

17.

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

18.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

19.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

20.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

21.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

22.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

23.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

24.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

25.

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

26.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

27.

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

28.

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

Epictetus

29.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

30.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

33.

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

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.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

36.

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

Seneca

37.

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

Kafka, Franz

38.

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

Hoffer, Eric

39.

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

Renard, Jules

40.

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

King, Billie Jean

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

44.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

45.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

46.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

47.

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

Smith, Frederick

48.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

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

50.

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!!