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

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Foreman, Ed

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Theodosia Garrison

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Taylor Swift

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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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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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

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

Bryant, Jean

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

35.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

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