Motivational Quotes

Fear

I have a fear of failure.

- Montana, Joe

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.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

3.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

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

Dyson, Freeman

5.

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

Foreman, Ed

6.

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

7.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

8.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

9.

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

10.

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

11.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

12.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

13.

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

14.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

15.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

16.

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

Craig, Roger

17.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

18.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

19.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

20.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

21.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

23.

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

24.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

25.

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

26.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

29.

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

30.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

31.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

32.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Seneca

36.

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

37.

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

38.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

39.

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

Edmund Burke

40.

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

Northcote, James

41.

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

Theodosia Garrison

42.

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

Eric Hoffer

43.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

44.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

47.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

48.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

49.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

50.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.