Motivational Quotes

Fear

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

- Livy, Titus

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Frances Moore Lappe

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

10.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

11.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

12.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

13.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

15.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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

Epictetus

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

Shakespeare, William

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bertrand Russell

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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 only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.