Motivational Quotes

Fear

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

- Livy, Titus

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Northcote, James

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

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

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

Keynes, John Maynard

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Davis, Elmer

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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 has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Brown, Les

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Eric Schmidt

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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

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear is what kills us.

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

Parsons, Wendell

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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