Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Akhenaton

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

Ferdinand Foch

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

10.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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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 is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

16.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Downes, Donald

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

32.

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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Johnson, John

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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 what kills us.

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

41.

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

46.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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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

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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