Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Fear

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

George Carlin

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

Northcote, James

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

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

10.

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

Johnson, John

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

Bible

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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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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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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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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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Smith, Frederick

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel