Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Fear

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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.

Hesse, Hermann

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dale, Stan

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Taylor Swift

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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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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Davis, Elmer

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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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham