Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Ferdinand Foch

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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

Bible

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Kafka, Franz

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Seneca

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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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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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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Downes, Donald

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.