Motivational Quotes

Fear

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

2.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

3.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

4.

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

Axiom, Grandma

5.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

6.

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

Hoffer, Eric

7.

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

8.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

9.

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

Ann Radcliffe

10.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

15.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

16.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

17.

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

Eric Schmidt

18.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

19.

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

Emily Dickinson

20.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

24.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

25.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

27.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

28.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

29.

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

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

32.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

33.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

34.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

35.

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

Taylor Swift

36.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

37.

Fear is what kills us.

38.

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

39.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

42.

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

43.

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

King, Billie Jean

44.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

45.

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

Theodosia Garrison

46.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

47.

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!!

48.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

49.

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

Paul, Jean

50.

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