Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear guides more than gratitude.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

2.

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

3.

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

4.

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

Hill, Napoleon

5.

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

Eric Schmidt

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

10.

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

11.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

12.

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

Theodosia Garrison

13.

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

Renard, Jules

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

17.

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

18.

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

Dale, Stan

20.

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

Johnson, John

21.

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

King, Billie Jean

22.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

23.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

24.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

25.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

27.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

28.

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

Dryden, John

29.

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

30.

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

Smith, Frederick

31.

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

32.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

33.

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

37.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

38.

Fear is what kills us.

39.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Hoffer, Eric

43.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

44.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

46.

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.

47.

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

Seneca

48.

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

49.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

50.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.