Motivational Quotes

Fear

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.

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

2.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

3.

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.

4.

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

5.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

6.

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

7.

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

Eric Schmidt

8.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

9.

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

Craig, Roger

10.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

18.

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

Taylor Swift

19.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

20.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

22.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

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

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Brown, Les

26.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

27.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

28.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

29.

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

Emily Dickinson

30.

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

31.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

32.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

33.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

34.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

35.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

36.

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

Edmund Burke

37.

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

38.

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.

39.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

40.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

41.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

42.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.