Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the biggest motivator.

- Dixon, Bill

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Craig, Roger

2.

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

3.

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

Seneca

4.

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

6.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

7.

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

8.

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

Bradbury, Ray

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

King, Billie Jean

13.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

14.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

15.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

16.

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

17.

He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

18.

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

19.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

20.

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

21.

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

Johnson, Samuel

22.

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

23.

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

24.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

25.

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

26.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

28.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

Northcote, James

31.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

32.

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

Nightingale, Florence

33.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

34.

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

Bryant, Jean

35.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

36.

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

Hill, Napoleon

37.

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

38.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

39.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

40.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

42.

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

Akhenaton

43.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

44.

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

Kafka, Franz

45.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

46.

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

Ferdinand Foch

47.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

48.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

49.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

50.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha