Motivational Quotes

Fear

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

2.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

3.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

4.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

5.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

6.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

7.

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

8.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

9.

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

10.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

11.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

12.

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

13.

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

Eric Hoffer

14.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

15.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

16.

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

Johnson, Samuel

17.

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

18.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

19.

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

20.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

21.

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

Akhenaton

22.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

29.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

30.

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

31.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

32.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

33.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

34.

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

Francis Quarles

35.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

37.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

38.

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

Shakespeare, William

39.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

Hoffer, Eric

41.

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

Ann Radcliffe

42.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

43.

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

44.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

45.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

46.

Fear is what kills us.

47.

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

Eric Schmidt

48.

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

Nightingale, Florence

49.

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

50.

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