Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

King, Billie Jean

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

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

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

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

12.

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

13.

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

Nightingale, Florence

14.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

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

16.

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

Kempis, Thomas

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

19.

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

Parsons, Wendell

20.

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

21.

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

22.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

23.

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

24.

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

Johnson, Samuel

25.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

26.

Fear is what kills us.

27.

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

28.

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

29.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

30.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

31.

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

Carnegie, Dale

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

35.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

36.

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

37.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

38.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

Foreman, Ed

40.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

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

George Carlin

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

46.

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

47.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

48.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

49.

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

Hoffer, Eric

50.

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