Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Seneca

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

Eric Schmidt

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

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Shakespeare, William

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Fear is what kills us.

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Taylor Swift

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

Bryant, Jean

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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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.

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

Edmund Burke

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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