Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Smith, Frederick

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

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Paul, Jean

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Taylor Swift

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Seneca

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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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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 met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane