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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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 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

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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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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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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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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Eric Hoffer

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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

George Carlin

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Taylor Swift

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata