Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Epictetus

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

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

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

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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 proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Johnson, John

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Paul, Jean

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

George Carlin

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.