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

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

Shakespeare, William

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bible

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

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

Northcote, James

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Taylor Swift

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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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 thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De