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

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Carnegie, Dale

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

George Carlin

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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

Northcote, James

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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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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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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Dale, Stan

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Seneca

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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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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Fear is what kills us.