Motivational Quotes

Fear

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

- Proverb, Moorish

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

Ferdinand Foch

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Taylor Swift

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Bryant, Jean

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dyson, Freeman

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Brown, Les

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Johnson, John

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Eric Hoffer

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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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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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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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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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