Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Dyson, Freeman

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

2.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

3.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

4.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

5.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

6.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Kafka, Franz

11.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

12.

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

13.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

14.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

15.

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

16.

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

Seneca

17.

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

Smith, Frederick

18.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

19.

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

20.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

21.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

22.

God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

23.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

24.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

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

Dryden, John

26.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

31.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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.

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

Seneca

34.

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

Bryant, Jean

35.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

36.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

38.

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

39.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

40.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

41.

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

42.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

43.

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.

44.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

45.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

46.

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.

47.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

48.

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

49.

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

50.

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

Ann Radcliffe