Motivational Quotes

Fear

Great fear is concealed under daring.

- Lucan, F. L.

Best Quotes about Fear

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Ann Radcliffe

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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 is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

42.

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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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