Motivational Quotes

Fear

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

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

Fear is what kills us.

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

Dyson, Freeman

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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 not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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

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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 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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Craig, Roger

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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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 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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Davis, Elmer

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

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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

Eric Schmidt

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil