Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Taylor Swift

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hoffer, Eric

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, Moorish

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, John

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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

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

Dyson, Freeman

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Davis, Elmer

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

35.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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.