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 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

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

Emily Dickinson

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Anderson, Marian

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Epictetus

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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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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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Hoffer, Eric

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius