Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

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

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Theodosia Garrison

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Downes, Donald

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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 the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Taylor Swift

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Axiom, Grandma

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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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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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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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