Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Proverb, Hasidic

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Axiom, Grandma

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Ferdinand Foch

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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Johnson, John

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Davis, Elmer

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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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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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Downes, Donald

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

Seneca

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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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

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger