Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Fear

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Parsons, Wendell

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

Frances Moore Lappe

Fear is what kills us.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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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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

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

12.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Renard, Jules

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

18.

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

Bible

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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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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Johnson, John

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

Anderson, Marian

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

26.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

28.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dyson, Freeman

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

41.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Thompson, Dorothy

46.

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

Kafka, Franz

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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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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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