Motivational Quotes

Fear

Great fear is concealed under daring.

- Lucan, F. L.

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is what kills us.

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

Epictetus

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

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Davis, Elmer

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Proverb, Moorish

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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 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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules