Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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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

2.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

4.

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

Ann Radcliffe

5.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

6.

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

Dale, Stan

7.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

8.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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Fear is what kills us.

10.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

11.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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

13.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

15.

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

Paul, Jean

16.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

17.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

22.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

25.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

26.

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

Dryden, John

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

29.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

30.

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

Brown, Les

31.

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

32.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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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 the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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.

36.

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

Anderson, Marian

37.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

38.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

42.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

43.

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

Parsons, Wendell

44.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

47.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Hill, Napoleon

49.

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

50.

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