Motivational Quotes

Fear

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

- Francis Quarles

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

2.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

3.

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

4.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

13.

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

14.

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

Smith, Frederick

15.

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

King, Billie Jean

16.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

17.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

19.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

20.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

21.

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

Kempis, Thomas

22.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

23.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

24.

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

25.

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

26.

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

27.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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.

30.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

31.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

32.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

33.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

34.

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

Davis, Elmer

35.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

39.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

40.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

41.

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