Motivational Quotes

Fear

"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

- Taylor Swift

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

2.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

3.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

4.

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

5.

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

Brown, Les

6.

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

7.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

8.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

9.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

10.

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

Renard, Jules

11.

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

Kempis, Thomas

12.

Fear is what kills us.

13.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

14.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

15.

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

Bryant, Jean

16.

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

17.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

18.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

20.

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

21.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

22.

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

Parsons, Wendell

23.

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.

24.

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

Seneca

25.

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

Bradbury, Ray

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

30.

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

Ann Radcliffe

31.

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!!

32.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Carnegie, Dale

34.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

35.

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

Edmund Burke

36.

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

37.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.