Motivational Quotes

Fear

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.

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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

Foreman, Ed

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

Johnson, Samuel

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Seneca

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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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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Renard, Jules

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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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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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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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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

Johnson, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Ferdinand Foch

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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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.