Motivational Quotes

Fear

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

- Apollinaire, Guillaume

Best Quotes about Fear

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Dryden, John

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Claudianus, Claudius

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

12.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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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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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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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Taylor Swift

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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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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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

42.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Epictetus

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.