Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

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

Eric Schmidt

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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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.

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Fear is what kills us.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Taylor Swift

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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

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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

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Brown, Les

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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

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Seneca

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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

King, Billie Jean