Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

- George Sewell

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

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

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

King, Billie Jean

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Bradbury, Ray

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ferdinand Foch

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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