Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

- Lovecraft, H. P.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Parsons, Wendell

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Davis, Elmer

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

King, Billie Jean

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Proverb, Moorish

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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Fear is what kills us.

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Foreman, Ed

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.