Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

- Bell, James F.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Seneca

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

Renard, Jules

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Maclaine, Shirley

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Eric Schmidt

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Theodosia Garrison

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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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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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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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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

Bradbury, Ray

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb