Motivational Quotes

Fear

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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

Frances Moore Lappe

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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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!!

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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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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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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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

29.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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 God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Eric Hoffer

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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 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

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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