Motivational Quotes

Fear

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.

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

2.

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

3.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

4.

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

Craig, Roger

5.

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

Ann Radcliffe

6.

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

7.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

8.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

9.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

Renard, Jules

11.

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

12.

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

Nightingale, Florence

13.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

14.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

15.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

19.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

21.

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

22.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

23.

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

Kafka, Franz

24.

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

Paul, Jean

25.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

26.

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.

27.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

28.

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

29.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

30.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

32.

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

Parsons, Wendell

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

35.

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

Northcote, James

36.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

37.

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

38.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

42.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

43.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

44.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

49.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

50.

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

Thompson, Dorothy