Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Best Quotes about Fear

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

Johnson, Samuel

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Foreman, Ed

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

13.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

15.

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

Brown, Les

16.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Bible

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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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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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach