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

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Taylor Swift

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eric Hoffer

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Bryant, Jean

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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

Dyson, Freeman

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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

Ferdinand Foch