Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bryant, Jean

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Anderson, Marian

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

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

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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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Taylor Swift

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Moorish

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Maltz, Maxwell