Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Dale, Stan

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Davis, Elmer

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Bible

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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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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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 conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Proverb, Moorish

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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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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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Francis Quarles

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne