Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Northcote, James

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Eric Schmidt

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

George Carlin

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

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Johnson, John

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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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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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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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Bryant, Jean

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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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 is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Ferdinand Foch