Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear guides more than gratitude.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Fear

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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

Bible

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

Bradbury, Ray

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Brown, Les

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

George Carlin

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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 is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Seneca

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Downes, Donald

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Dryden, John

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

Ferdinand Foch

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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

Renard, Jules

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata