Motivational Quotes

Fear

People die of fright and live of confidence.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

King, Billie Jean

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

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

Seneca

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Bryant, Jean

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Eric Schmidt

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Renard, Jules

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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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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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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Taylor Swift

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles