Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Northcote, James

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Parsons, Wendell

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

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Johnson, John

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

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Carnegie, Dale

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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 is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

George Carlin

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Craig, Roger

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

Downes, Donald

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

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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