Motivational Quotes

Fear

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Northcote, James

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Foreman, Ed

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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

Paul, Jean

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Johnson, John

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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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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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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