Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

2.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

3.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

4.

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

Paul, Jean

5.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

6.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

7.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

8.

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

Carnegie, Dale

9.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Dyson, Freeman

12.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

14.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

15.

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

Akhenaton

16.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

17.

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

18.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

19.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

20.

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

Kempis, Thomas

21.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

22.

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

23.

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

Northcote, James

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

27.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

28.

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

29.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

30.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

31.

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.

32.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

35.

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

Renard, Jules

36.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

37.

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

Ann Radcliffe

38.

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

39.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

40.

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

41.

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

Nightingale, Earl

42.

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

Ann Radcliffe

43.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

44.

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

45.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

46.

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

47.

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

Seneca

48.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

49.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

50.

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