Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Northcote, James

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

2.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

3.

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

4.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

5.

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

6.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

7.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

8.

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

Eric Hoffer

9.

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.

10.

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

11.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

12.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

13.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

14.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Anderson, Marian

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

19.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

20.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

21.

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

Dyson, Freeman

22.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

24.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

25.

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

Northcote, James

26.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Bryant, Jean

31.

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

Taylor Swift

32.

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

33.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

35.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

36.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

37.

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

38.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

39.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

King, Billie Jean

41.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

42.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

44.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

45.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

46.

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

47.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

48.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

49.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.