Motivational Quotes

Fear

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

- Godard, Jean-Luc

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Ann Radcliffe

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Seneca

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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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 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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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

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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

George Carlin

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De