Motivational Quotes

Fear

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Taylor Swift

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Dyson, Freeman

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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

Ferdinand Foch

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

Bible

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De