Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

- George Sewell

Best Quotes about Fear

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Kempis, Thomas

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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 always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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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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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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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 worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Anderson, Marian

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