Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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

Paul, Jean

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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 only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Anderson, Marian

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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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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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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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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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