Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Ann Radcliffe

2.

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

3.

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

Carnegie, Dale

4.

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

Kafka, Franz

5.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

6.

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

Ferdinand Foch

7.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

8.

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

9.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

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

11.

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

12.

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

Dryden, John

13.

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

14.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

15.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

16.

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

19.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

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

Dale, Stan

22.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

23.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

24.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

25.

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

Kempis, Thomas

26.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

27.

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

Patton, George S.

28.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Fear is what kills us.

32.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

33.

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

Epictetus

34.

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

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Hill, Napoleon

37.

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

38.

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, Moorish

41.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

42.

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

43.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

44.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

45.

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

Dyson, Freeman

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

49.

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

50.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe