Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Downes, Donald

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Smith, Frederick

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Renard, Jules

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Parsons, Wendell

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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 sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Taylor Swift

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Fear is what kills us.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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

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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