Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Seneca

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

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

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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 is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Dryden, John

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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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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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Taylor Swift

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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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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Davis, Elmer

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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.