Motivational Quotes

Fear

The thing I fear most is fear.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Fear

1.

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

Bible

2.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

3.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

4.

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

5.

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

Shakespeare, William

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

7.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

8.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

12.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

14.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

15.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

16.

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

Davis, Elmer

17.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

18.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

20.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.

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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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

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

26.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Epictetus

28.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

29.

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

30.

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

31.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

Ferdinand Foch

33.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

35.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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

37.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

38.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

39.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

40.

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

41.

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

42.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

43.

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