Motivational Quotes

Fear

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Fear

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Nightingale, Florence

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Paul, Jean

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Davis, Elmer

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Fear is what kills us.

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Smith, Frederick

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Bradley, Francis H.