Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

- Bell, James F.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Smith, Frederick

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Parsons, Wendell

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Dale, Stan

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear is what kills us.

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

Dryden, John

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Brown, Les

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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

Seneca

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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

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Eric Hoffer

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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!!

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus