Motivational Quotes

Fear

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Dryden, John

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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

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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

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Edmund Burke

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Patton, George S.

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

Epictetus

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

George Carlin

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Parsons, Wendell

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dale, Stan

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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!!

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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.

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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

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

Johnson, John

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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

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

44.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Eric Hoffer

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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