Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Fear

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Eric Schmidt

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bryant, Jean

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Seneca

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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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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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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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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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Dale, Stan

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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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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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

Anderson, Marian