Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

- George Sewell

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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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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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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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 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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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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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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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bryant, Jean

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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