Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

- George Sewell

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Northcote, James

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

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.

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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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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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Smith, Frederick

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Craig, Roger

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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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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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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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.