Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Seneca

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

Dale, Stan

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Nightingale, Florence

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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

Northcote, James

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Downes, Donald

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Seneca

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

31.

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

Bible

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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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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Edmund Burke

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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 God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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

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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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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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.