Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear guides more than gratitude.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Anderson, Marian

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.

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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

Bradley, Francis H.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Taylor Swift

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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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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Eric Schmidt

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Dyson, Freeman

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