Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Hitchcock, Alfred

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Seneca

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Taylor Swift

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Dale, Stan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

George Carlin

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Foreman, Ed

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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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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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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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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 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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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 has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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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 the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.