Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

2.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

3.

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!!

4.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

5.

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

Anderson, Marian

6.

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

Eric Hoffer

7.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

8.

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

Epictetus

9.

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

Brown, Les

10.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

11.

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

Emily Dickinson

12.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

13.

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

14.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

15.

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

16.

Fear is what kills us.

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

19.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

20.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

21.

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

22.

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

Paul, Jean

23.

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

24.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

25.

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

26.

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

Axiom, Grandma

27.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Proverb, Moorish

30.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

31.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

32.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

33.

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

34.

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

Edmund Burke

35.

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

Hoffer, Eric

36.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

37.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

38.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

39.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

40.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

Parsons, Wendell

42.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

43.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

44.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

45.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

50.

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

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