Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Fear

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Downes, Donald

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Bible

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

10.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

11.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

27.

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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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

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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.

37.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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