Motivational Quotes

Fear

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

2.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

3.

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

4.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

5.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

6.

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

Johnson, John

7.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

8.

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

9.

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

10.

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

11.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

12.

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

Hoffer, Eric

13.

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

Seneca

14.

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

King, Billie Jean

15.

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

Parsons, Wendell

16.

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

Eric Hoffer

17.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

18.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

19.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

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

Kafka, Franz

24.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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

26.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

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

28.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

29.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

30.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Axiom, Grandma

34.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

35.

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

George Carlin

36.

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

Foreman, Ed

37.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

38.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.