Motivational Quotes

Fear

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Dyson, Freeman

2.

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

Nightingale, Earl

3.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

4.

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

8.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

9.

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

10.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

11.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

13.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

17.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

18.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

19.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

20.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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.

24.

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.

25.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

27.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

29.

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

Renard, Jules

30.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

35.

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

36.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

37.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

38.

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

39.

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

40.

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

Bryant, Jean

41.

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

Dale, Stan

42.

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

Axiom, Grandma

43.

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

King, Billie Jean

44.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

49.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

50.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.