Motivational Quotes

Fear

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

- Proverb, Moorish

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

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

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Northcote, James

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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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.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bible

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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