Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Frances Moore Lappe

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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.

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

Brown, Les

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

10.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

12.

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

Carnegie, Dale

13.

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

14.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

15.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

16.

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

Downes, Donald

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

19.

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

Parsons, Wendell

20.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

21.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

22.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

28.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

29.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

30.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

31.

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

Ferdinand Foch

32.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

33.

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

34.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

35.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

36.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

37.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

38.

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

39.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

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

41.

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

Nightingale, Earl

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Craig, Roger

45.

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

46.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

47.

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.

48.

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

Bible

49.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

50.

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

Smith, Frederick