Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Wrigley Jr., William

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Dale, Stan

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.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

10.

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

Carnegie, Dale

11.

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

12.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

13.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

14.

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

Theodosia Garrison

15.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

16.

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

17.

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!!

18.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

19.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

20.

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

21.

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

22.

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

23.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

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

Seneca

25.

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

King, Billie Jean

26.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

27.

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

Nightingale, Earl

28.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

29.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

30.

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

Dryden, John

31.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

32.

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

33.

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

34.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

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

36.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

37.

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

38.

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

Parsons, Wendell

39.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

41.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

42.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

43.

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

44.

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

Ann Radcliffe

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

50.

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