Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

2.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

3.

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

Foreman, Ed

4.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

5.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

6.

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

7.

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

8.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

9.

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

Epictetus

10.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

11.

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.

12.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

13.

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

Craig, Roger

14.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

15.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

16.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

17.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

19.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

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

21.

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

Ann Radcliffe

22.

God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

23.

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

24.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

25.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

26.

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

27.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

28.

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

29.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

30.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

31.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

32.

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

33.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

34.

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

35.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

36.

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

37.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

38.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

39.

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

Proverb, Moorish

41.

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

King, Billie Jean

42.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

43.

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

44.

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

45.

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

46.

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

47.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

48.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

49.

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

50.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.