Motivational Quotes

Fear

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Fear

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Davis, Elmer

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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 failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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

Epictetus

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Seneca

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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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

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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

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.