Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Epictetus

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Eric Schmidt

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Taylor Swift

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Renard, Jules

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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

Northcote, James

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

Kafka, Franz

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Bible

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.