Motivational Quotes

Fear

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

2.

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

Edmund Burke

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

6.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

7.

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

8.

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

Craig, Roger

9.

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

10.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

11.

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!!

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Seneca

15.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

16.

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

Bryant, Jean

17.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

18.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

19.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

20.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

21.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

22.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

23.

Fear is what kills us.

24.

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

King, Billie Jean

25.

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

26.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

27.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

28.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

30.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

31.

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

Patton, George S.

32.

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

33.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

34.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

35.

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.

36.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

37.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

38.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

39.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

40.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

41.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

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

Ann Radcliffe

43.

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

Kafka, Franz

44.

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

48.

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

Bertrand Russell

49.

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