Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Godard, Jean-Luc

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Shakespeare, William

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Dryden, John

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

Parsons, Wendell

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

10.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

11.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

12.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

13.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

14.

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

15.

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

16.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

17.

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

18.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

20.

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

21.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

22.

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

23.

Fear is what kills us.

24.

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

25.

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

Theodosia Garrison

26.

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

27.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

Edmund Burke

30.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

32.

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

33.

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

Eric Hoffer

34.

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

35.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

36.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

37.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

38.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

39.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

40.

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

41.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

Kempis, Thomas

43.

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

44.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

45.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

46.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

Nightingale, Earl

48.

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

49.

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