Motivational Quotes

Fear

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Fear

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Eric Schmidt

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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

Renard, Jules

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Johnson, John

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

Northcote, James

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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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.