Motivational Quotes

Fear

He without fear is king of the world.

- Eddison, E. E.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Anderson, Marian

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Eric Hoffer

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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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

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

George Carlin

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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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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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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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Johnson, John

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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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