Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear guides more than gratitude.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Fear

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

Northcote, James

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Dryden, John

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

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Hoffer, Eric

12.

He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

13.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Eric Hoffer

15.

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

16.

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

17.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

18.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

19.

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

Edmund Burke

20.

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

21.

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

22.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

23.

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

Dyson, Freeman

24.

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

25.

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

26.

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

27.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

28.

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

29.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

30.

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

31.

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

George Carlin

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

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

Carnegie, Dale

38.

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

39.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

40.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

41.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

42.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

43.

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

44.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

45.

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

Craig, Roger

46.

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.

47.

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

48.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

49.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

50.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.