Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

- Jones, Eli Stanley

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Johnson, John

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

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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

Davis, Elmer

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Patton, George S.

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Edmund Burke

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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

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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

Proverb, Moorish

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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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.