Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Ann Radcliffe

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bible

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Downes, Donald

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Seneca

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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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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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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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

Davis, Elmer

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Hoffer, Eric

29.

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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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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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Nightingale, Florence

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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.