Motivational Quotes

Fear

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Johnson, John

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

Bradbury, Ray

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

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

Smith, Frederick

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Renard, Jules

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Kafka, Franz

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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

Northcote, James

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear is what kills us.

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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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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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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

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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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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.

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Fear is the mind killer