Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear makes men believe the worst.

- Rufus, Quintus Curtius

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

2.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

3.

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!!

4.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

5.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

6.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

7.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

8.

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

9.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

Proverb, Moorish

11.

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

Ann Radcliffe

12.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

13.

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

14.

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

15.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

16.

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

17.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

18.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

19.

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

20.

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

Craig, Roger

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Kafka, Franz

27.

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

28.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

29.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

30.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

31.

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

32.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

33.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

34.

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

Eric Hoffer

35.

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

Nightingale, Florence

36.

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

Northcote, James

37.

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

Edmund Burke

38.

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

Paul, Jean

39.

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

40.

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

Epictetus

41.

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

42.

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

43.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

44.

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

King, Billie Jean

45.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

46.

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.

47.

I have a fear of failure.