Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Proverb, Hasidic

Best Quotes about Fear

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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

Edmund Burke

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

Francis Quarles

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

Johnson, Samuel

Fear is what kills us.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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

Eric Hoffer

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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

Johnson, John

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Taylor Swift

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.