Motivational Quotes

Fear

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

- Hopkins, Tom

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Keynes, John Maynard

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

10.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

11.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

12.

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

13.

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

Dryden, John

14.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

15.

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

Proverb, Moorish

16.

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

17.

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

Eric Hoffer

18.

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

Eric Schmidt

19.

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

King, Billie Jean

20.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

21.

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

22.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

23.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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.

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

Edmund Burke

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

28.

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

Parsons, Wendell

29.

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

Dale, Stan

30.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

31.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

32.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

33.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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.

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

Emily Dickinson

36.

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

Dyson, Freeman

37.

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.

38.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

39.

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

40.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

45.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

46.

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

47.

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

48.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

49.

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

50.

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

Nightingale, Earl