Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Theodosia Garrison

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Bryant, Jean

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Downes, Donald

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Brown, Les

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

10.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

11.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Taylor Swift

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Nightingale, Florence

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Renard, Jules

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

King, Billie Jean

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Johnson, John