Motivational Quotes

Fear

People die of fright and live of confidence.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Fear

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Proverb, Hasidic

Fear is what kills us.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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

Dyson, Freeman

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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

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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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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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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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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Bible

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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

Dale, Stan

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

King, Billie Jean

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

George Carlin

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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