Motivational Quotes

Fear

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Frances Moore Lappe

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The best safety lies in fear.

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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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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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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Fear is what kills us.

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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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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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

Bible

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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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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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 may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Taylor Swift

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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