Motivational Quotes

Fear

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Theodosia Garrison

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Ferdinand Foch

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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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

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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.

Akhenaton

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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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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.

34.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

43.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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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

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob