Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Seneca

2.

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

3.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

4.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

5.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

6.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

7.

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

Eric Hoffer

8.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

9.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

10.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

11.

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

Eric Schmidt

12.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

13.

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

14.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

15.

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

Kempis, Thomas

16.

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

Taylor Swift

17.

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

Axiom, Grandma

20.

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

21.

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Parsons, Wendell

26.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

27.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

28.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

29.

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

30.

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

Ann Radcliffe

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

35.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

36.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

37.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

38.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

39.

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.

40.

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.

41.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

42.

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

43.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

44.

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

Johnson, John

45.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

46.

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

47.

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

Kafka, Franz

48.

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

Johnson, Samuel

49.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

50.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.