Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Best Quotes about Fear

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

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

Johnson, John

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Epictetus

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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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

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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

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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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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric