Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Craig, Roger

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

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Parsons, Wendell

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

George Carlin

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

Akhenaton

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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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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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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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Downes, Donald

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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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 is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Renard, Jules

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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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Johnson, Samuel