Motivational Quotes

Fear

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Patton, George S.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Eric Hoffer

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.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Renard, Jules

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Eric Schmidt

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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 what kills us.

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.