Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Edmund Burke

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

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

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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 defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Renard, Jules

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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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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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

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

Seneca

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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 the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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

Eric Hoffer

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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!!