Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Fear

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

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

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.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Patton, George S.

10.

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

Johnson, John

11.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

12.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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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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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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.

18.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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

Ann Radcliffe

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

31.

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

Bible

32.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Maltz, Maxwell

34.

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

Taylor Swift

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

46.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley