Motivational Quotes

Fear

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

- Benson, Arthur Christopher

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

George Carlin

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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

Anderson, Marian

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Downes, Donald

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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

Davis, Elmer

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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.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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.