Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bradley, Francis H.

Best Quotes about Fear

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Frances Moore Lappe

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Eric Schmidt

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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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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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Smith, Frederick

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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

Anderson, Marian

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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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

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

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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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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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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom