Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

2.

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

Nightingale, Florence

3.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

4.

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

Anderson, Marian

5.

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

6.

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

7.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

8.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

9.

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

Craig, Roger

10.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Carnegie, Dale

13.

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

14.

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

Patton, George S.

15.

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

Brown, Les

16.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

17.

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

18.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

19.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

20.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

21.

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

22.

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

23.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

25.

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

26.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

27.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

28.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

29.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

30.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

33.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

34.

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

King, Billie Jean

35.

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

Kempis, Thomas

36.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

37.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

38.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

39.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

40.

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

41.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

42.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

46.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

47.

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

48.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

49.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

50.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre