Motivational Quotes

Fear

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

- Theodosia Garrison

Best Quotes about Fear

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Brown, Les

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Downes, Donald

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Renard, Jules

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Eric Hoffer

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Bryant, Jean

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Scheele, Paul R.