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

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Downes, Donald

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

George Carlin

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Nightingale, Florence

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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 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

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Northcote, James

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack