Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Taylor Swift

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Northcote, James

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Foreman, Ed

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Nightingale, Earl

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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

Nightingale, Florence

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

16.

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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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Renard, Jules

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Eric Hoffer

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Anderson, Marian

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Kafka, Franz

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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.