Motivational Quotes

Fear

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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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.

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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.

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Edmund Burke

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Johnson, John

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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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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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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

Smith, Frederick

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.