Motivational Quotes

Fear

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Fear

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

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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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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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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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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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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 may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Seneca