Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

2.

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

3.

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.

4.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

5.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

6.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

7.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

8.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

9.

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

11.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

12.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

13.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

14.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

16.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

17.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

18.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

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

Edmund Burke

22.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

23.

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

24.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

25.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

26.

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

27.

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

Taylor Swift

28.

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

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

37.

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

Theodosia Garrison

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

40.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

41.

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

Foreman, Ed

42.

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

43.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

45.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

46.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

47.

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

48.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

49.

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

50.

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