Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

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.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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 is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill