Motivational Quotes

Fear

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

- Francis De Sales, St.

Best Quotes about Fear

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

Francis Quarles

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Smith, Frederick

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Davis, Elmer

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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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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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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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