Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Taylor Swift

Best Quotes about Fear

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

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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

Renard, Jules

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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

Bible

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

25.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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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.

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Theodosia Garrison

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