Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Overstreet, Harry A.

Best Quotes about Fear

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Seneca

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 the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Dyson, Freeman

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Taylor Swift

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Davis, Elmer

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Johnson, John

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Bryant, Jean

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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