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

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

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

Francis Quarles

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

Claudianus, Claudius

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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

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

Dyson, Freeman

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

31.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

37.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Taylor Swift

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

Johnson, John

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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