Motivational Quotes

Fear

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Renard, Jules

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

Nightingale, Florence

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Paul, Jean

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Smith, Frederick

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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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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Eric Hoffer

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Davis, Elmer

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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 is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.