Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

2.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

3.

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

Dryden, John

4.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

5.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

7.

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

8.

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

Proverb, Moorish

9.

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

10.

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

11.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

12.

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

13.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

14.

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

Carnegie, Dale

15.

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

Nightingale, Florence

16.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

17.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

18.

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.

19.

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

Dyson, Freeman

20.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

21.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

George Carlin

23.

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

Craig, Roger

24.

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

Bryant, Jean

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.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

28.

"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

29.

Fear is what kills us.

30.

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

31.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

32.

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

33.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

35.

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

Emily Dickinson

36.

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

Ann Radcliffe

37.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

38.

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

39.

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

Smith, Frederick

40.

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

41.

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

42.

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

43.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

44.

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

45.

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

Northcote, James

46.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

47.

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

48.

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