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

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Kafka, Franz

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

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.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Patton, George S.

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

Eric Hoffer

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

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Bryant, Jean

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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 is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Renard, Jules

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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 guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Eric Schmidt

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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.

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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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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French