Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Fear

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Dyson, Freeman

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

10.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

11.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

12.

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!!

13.

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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

18.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Foreman, Ed

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

31.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maclaren, Alexander

35.

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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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

39.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

40.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

42.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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

Northcote, James

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata