Motivational Quotes

Fear

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Fear

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Nixon, Richard M.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Paul, Jean

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

Axiom, Grandma

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Johnson, John

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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.

Parsons, Wendell

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Epictetus

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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

Kafka, Franz

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Hoffer, Eric

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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

Davis, Elmer

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

King, Billie Jean

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.