Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Eric Schmidt

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

2.

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

Patton, George S.

3.

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

4.

Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

5.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

6.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

7.

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

8.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

9.

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

10.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

13.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

14.

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

Downes, Donald

15.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

16.

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

Brown, Les

17.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

21.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

22.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

23.

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

Akhenaton

24.

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

Foreman, Ed

25.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

26.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

27.

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!!

28.

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

Nightingale, Earl

29.

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

George Carlin

30.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

31.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

32.

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

Edmund Burke

33.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

Fear is what kills us.

35.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

36.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

40.

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

41.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

43.

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

44.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

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

48.

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

Epictetus

49.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

50.

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