Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Fear

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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

Anderson, Marian

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Kafka, Franz

19.

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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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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

Davis, Elmer

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Eric Schmidt

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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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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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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel