Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Shakespeare, William

2.

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

3.

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

Nightingale, Earl

4.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

5.

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

6.

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

Ferdinand Foch

7.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

8.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

9.

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

10.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

11.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

12.

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

13.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

14.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

15.

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

Kempis, Thomas

16.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

17.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

18.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

19.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

20.

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

Seneca

21.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

22.

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

23.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

25.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

26.

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

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

29.

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

Davis, Elmer

30.

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

31.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

35.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

36.

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

Craig, Roger

37.

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

38.

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

40.

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

Parsons, Wendell

41.

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

Downes, Donald

42.

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

43.

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!!

44.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

45.

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

Kafka, Franz

46.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

47.

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

48.

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

49.

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

Seneca

50.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De