Motivational Quotes

Fear

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Shakespeare, William

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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

Patton, George S.

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

George Carlin

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

Foreman, Ed

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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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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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Davis, Elmer

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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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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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Johnson, John

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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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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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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Theodosia Garrison