Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

- George Sewell

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

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

Downes, Donald

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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

Craig, Roger

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

Taylor Swift

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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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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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

Paul, Jean

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Nightingale, Florence

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Theodosia Garrison

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil