Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

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

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

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.

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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

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

Smith, Frederick

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fear is what kills us.

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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 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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Brown, Les

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and 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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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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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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

Dryden, John

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Taylor Swift

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl