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

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

King, Billie Jean

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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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

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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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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

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

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

Bible

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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

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Renard, Jules

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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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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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