Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Parsons, Wendell

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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

Dyson, Freeman

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear is what kills us.

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

Davis, Elmer

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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

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

Downes, Donald

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

Patton, George S.

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

Seneca

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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 darkroom where negatives are developed.

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bradbury, Ray

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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