Motivational Quotes

Fear

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Anderson, Marian

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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

Ann Radcliffe

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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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 guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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

Ferdinand Foch

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Craig, Roger

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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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 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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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Taylor Swift

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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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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 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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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Davis, Elmer

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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 person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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

Lincoln, Abraham