Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Fear

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

Bradley, Francis H.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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

Epictetus

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Downes, Donald

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

Shakespeare, William

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Renard, Jules

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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