Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear the man who fears you.

- Proverb, Hasidic

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

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

Northcote, James

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

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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Fear is what kills us.

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Taylor Swift

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Davis, Elmer

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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