Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Fear

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Davis, Elmer

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bryant, Jean

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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 is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Seneca

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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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 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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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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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.