Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bradbury, Ray

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Dryden, John

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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 has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Taylor Swift

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Bryant, Jean

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Bible

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard 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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius