Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Emily Dickinson

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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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

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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

Edmund Burke

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Downes, Donald

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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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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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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Bible

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.