Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Downes, Donald

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Foreman, Ed

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

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

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

Wrigley Jr., William

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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

Epictetus

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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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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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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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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

Bryant, Jean

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Proverb, Moorish

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Taylor Swift

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Northcote, James

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley