Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, John

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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

George Carlin

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Seneca

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Edmund Burke

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Eric Schmidt

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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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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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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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