Motivational Quotes

Fear

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Fear

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Axiom, Grandma

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Renard, Jules

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Dyson, Freeman

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Craig, Roger

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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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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Fear is what kills us.

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb