Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Nightingale, Florence

Best Quotes about Fear

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Renard, Jules

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

Eric Schmidt

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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

Bible

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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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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Foreman, Ed

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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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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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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.

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De