Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Renard, Jules

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Dale, Stan

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Taylor Swift

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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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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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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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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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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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Theodosia Garrison

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius