Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Foreman, Ed

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

2.

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

Nightingale, Florence

3.

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

4.

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

Hill, Napoleon

5.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

6.

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

Davis, Elmer

7.

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

Renard, Jules

8.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

9.

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

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

Eric Hoffer

11.

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

12.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

15.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

16.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

18.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

20.

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

21.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

George Carlin

23.

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

24.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

25.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

26.

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

Bible

27.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

28.

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

Proverb, Moorish

29.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

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

Northcote, James

31.

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

Bryant, Jean

32.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

33.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

34.

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

35.

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!!

36.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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.

39.

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

Seneca

40.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

41.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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.

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

Akhenaton

44.

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

45.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

46.

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

47.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

48.

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

49.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

50.

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.