Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear the man who fears you.

- Proverb, Hasidic

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Downes, Donald

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Renard, Jules

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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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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Northcote, James

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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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Fear is what kills us.

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ferdinand Foch

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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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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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Dale, Stan

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Foreman, Ed

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

Hitchcock, Alfred