Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Claudianus, Claudius

Best Quotes about Fear

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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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 can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

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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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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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

George Carlin

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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 your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Maclaren, Alexander

29.

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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Johnson, John

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Wrigley Jr., William