Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Parsons, Wendell

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

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

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

Fear is what kills us.

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Eric Schmidt

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Seneca

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Downes, Donald

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Northcote, James

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 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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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.