Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear guides more than gratitude.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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 habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Downes, Donald

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Bible

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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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

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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

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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.