Motivational Quotes

Fear

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Epictetus

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Patton, George S.

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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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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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.