Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

2.

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

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.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

5.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

6.

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

7.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

8.

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

9.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

10.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

11.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

13.

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

Parsons, Wendell

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

16.

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

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.

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!!

19.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

20.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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

Craig, Roger

22.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

23.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

24.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

25.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Eric Schmidt

28.

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

29.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

30.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

32.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

38.

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

Kafka, Franz

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

George Carlin

41.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

43.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

44.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

45.

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

Anderson, Marian

46.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

47.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom