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

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

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Kafka, Franz

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Craig, Roger

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

King, Billie Jean

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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 mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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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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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Bryant, Jean

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean