Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Downes, Donald

Best Quotes about Fear

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

Theodosia Garrison

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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

Downes, Donald

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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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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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 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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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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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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.

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Keynes, John Maynard