Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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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

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

28.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

32.

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

Johnson, John

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Downes, Donald

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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.

43.

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

Smith, Frederick

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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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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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph