Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Anderson, Marian

Best Quotes about Fear

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Brown, Les

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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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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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Bible

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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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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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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 God and you need not fear anyone else.