Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about 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

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

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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

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

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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!!

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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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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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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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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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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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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

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

Taylor Swift

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Seneca

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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De