Motivational Quotes

Fear

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!!

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Best Quotes about Fear

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

Bible

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

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Edmund Burke

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

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

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

King, Billie Jean

13.

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

Emily Dickinson

14.

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

Epictetus

15.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

16.

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

17.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

18.

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

Dryden, John

19.

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

Anderson, Marian

20.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

22.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

23.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

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

25.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

26.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

27.

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

28.

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

29.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

30.

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

31.

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

Dale, Stan

32.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

33.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

34.

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

35.

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

Downes, Donald

36.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

37.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

38.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

43.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

44.

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

Axiom, Grandma

45.

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

Proverb, Moorish

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