Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Francis Quarles

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

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

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

17.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Renard, Jules

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Davis, Elmer

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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.

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

Eric Hoffer

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

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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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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Downes, Donald

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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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.

38.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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.

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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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 man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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!!