Motivational Quotes

Fear

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Fear

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Nightingale, Earl

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

14.

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

15.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Francis Quarles

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

27.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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

Axiom, Grandma

30.

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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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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

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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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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

41.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Davis, Elmer

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

49.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.