Motivational Quotes

Fear

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fear

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Johnson, John

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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