Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Patton, George S.

Best Quotes about Fear

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Axiom, Grandma

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Epictetus

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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 the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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

King, Billie Jean

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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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

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Renard, Jules

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

George Carlin

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank