Motivational Quotes

Fear

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.

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Maclaren, Alexander

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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

Eric Hoffer

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Dale, Stan

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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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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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Fear is what kills us.

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Johnson, John

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

Eric Schmidt

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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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