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

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

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is what kills us.

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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

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

Francis Quarles

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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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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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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Northcote, James

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