Motivational Quotes

Fear

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

- Francis Quarles

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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.

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

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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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

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Taylor Swift

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Davis, Elmer

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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

Edmund Burke

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

Seneca

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Johnson, John

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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Fear is what kills us.

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

Renard, Jules

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.