Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Downes, Donald

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

Dryden, John

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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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 what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Proverb, Moorish