Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Ferdinand Foch

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

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

Dale, Stan

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Kafka, Franz

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Edmund Burke

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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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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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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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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.

Akhenaton

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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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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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Patton, George S.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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