Motivational Quotes

Fear

Action conquers fear.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Taylor Swift

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Ferdinand Foch

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

King, Billie 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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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Fear is what kills us.

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

Downes, Donald

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Kafka, Franz

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel