Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bryant, Jean

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

2.

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

Foreman, Ed

3.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

4.

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

5.

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

6.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

7.

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

Ferdinand Foch

8.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

9.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

10.

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

Smith, Frederick

11.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

14.

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

15.

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

16.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

17.

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

18.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

19.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

22.

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

Ann Radcliffe

23.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

24.

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

25.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

26.

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

Hoffer, Eric

27.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

29.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

30.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

31.

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

32.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

33.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

34.

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

Anderson, Marian

35.

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

36.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

37.

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!!

38.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

40.

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

41.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

45.

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

Carnegie, Dale

46.

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

George Carlin

47.

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

48.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

49.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

50.

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

Hill, Napoleon