Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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.

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

Ferdinand Foch

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dryden, John

10.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Axiom, Grandma

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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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 of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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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 has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Eric Hoffer

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.