Motivational Quotes

Fear

Great fear is concealed under daring.

- Lucan, F. L.

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Maclaine, Shirley

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Paul, Jean

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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 is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Foreman, Ed

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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 only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Theodosia Garrison

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Brown, Les

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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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