Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Samuel

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Smith, Frederick

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

George Carlin

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Seneca

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Fear is what kills us.

21.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

22.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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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 less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Akhenaton

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Bradbury, Ray