Motivational Quotes

Fear

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Fear

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

Northcote, James

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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!!

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bible

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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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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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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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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Dale, Stan

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

Davis, Elmer

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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

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Johnson, John

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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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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.