Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Francis Quarles

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Keynes, John Maynard

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

12.

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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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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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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

Anderson, Marian

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Shakespeare, William

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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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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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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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

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Edmund Burke

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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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 not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach