Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Best Quotes about Fear

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

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Carnegie, Dale

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Emily Dickinson

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

10.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

George Carlin

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Taylor Swift

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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

23.

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

Bible

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Nightingale, Florence

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

33.

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

34.

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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Edmund Burke

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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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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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Hoffer, Eric

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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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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.