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

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Thompson, Dorothy

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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

George Carlin

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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 is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Paul, Jean

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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