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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Emily Dickinson

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

George Carlin

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Downes, Donald

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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

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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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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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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dale, Stan

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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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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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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Paul, Jean