Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Francis Quarles

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Dale, Stan

10.

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

Taylor Swift

11.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

13.

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

14.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

15.

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!!

16.

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

17.

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

Patton, George S.

18.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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.

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

21.

Fear is what kills us.

22.

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

Eric Hoffer

23.

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

24.

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

Nightingale, Earl

25.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

30.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

31.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

32.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

33.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

35.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

36.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

37.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

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

Dryden, John

39.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

40.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

41.

He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

42.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

43.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

44.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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.