Motivational Quotes

Fear

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Fear

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Seneca

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.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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 whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Dryden, John

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, 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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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Axiom, Grandma

37.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is what kills us.

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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