Motivational Quotes

Fear

People die of fright and live of confidence.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Dale, Stan

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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.

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Maclaren, Alexander

12.

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

Bible

14.

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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.

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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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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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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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

39.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

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

Renard, Jules

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Northcote, James

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