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

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Epictetus

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

Dryden, John

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

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.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

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

Bible

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

George Carlin

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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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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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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 passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Eric Schmidt

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Claudianus, Claudius

36.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon