Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

2.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

3.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

4.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

5.

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

Northcote, James

6.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

7.

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

Seneca

8.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

9.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

10.

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

Downes, Donald

11.

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

Ferdinand Foch

12.

"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

13.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

14.

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

15.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

16.

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

Seneca

17.

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!!

18.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

19.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

20.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

21.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

25.

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

26.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

27.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

28.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

29.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

30.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

31.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

32.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

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

34.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb, Moorish

38.

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

Nightingale, Earl

39.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

40.

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

Ann Radcliffe

41.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

42.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

43.

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

Dryden, John

44.

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

45.

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

Kempis, Thomas

46.

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

47.

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

Davis, Elmer

48.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

50.

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

Nightingale, Florence