Motivational Quotes

Fear

Great fear is concealed under daring.

- Lucan, F. L.

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

2.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

3.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

4.

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

5.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

6.

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

Smith, Frederick

7.

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

Dryden, John

8.

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

Proverb, Moorish

9.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

10.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

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

Northcote, James

14.

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

Edmund Burke

15.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

16.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

17.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

18.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

19.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

21.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

22.

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

Ann Radcliffe

23.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

24.

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

Dyson, Freeman

25.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

27.

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

Nightingale, Earl

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

33.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

34.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

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

Eric Schmidt

36.

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

37.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

38.

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

39.

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

Theodosia Garrison

40.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

41.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

42.

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

Eric Hoffer

43.

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

44.

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

Taylor Swift

45.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

46.

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.

47.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.