Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fear

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schuller, Robert H.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

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

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Johnson, John

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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

King, Billie Jean

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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 the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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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

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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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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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 the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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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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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 is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil