Motivational Quotes

Fear

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

- Gaye, Marvin

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

2.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

3.

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.

4.

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

King, Billie Jean

5.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

6.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

7.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

8.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

9.

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

Bryant, Jean

10.

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

Parsons, Wendell

11.

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

Edmund Burke

12.

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

Davis, Elmer

13.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

14.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

16.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Craig, Roger

18.

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.

19.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

20.

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

Eric Hoffer

21.

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

Bible

22.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

23.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

24.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

25.

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

Hoffer, Eric

26.

Fear is what kills us.

27.

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

28.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

29.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

30.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

31.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

32.

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

33.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

35.

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

Proverb, Moorish

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

39.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

40.

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

Johnson, John

41.

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

42.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

43.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

44.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

45.

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

46.

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