Motivational Quotes

Fear

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fear

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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

Johnson, John

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bible

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

Nightingale, Florence

12.

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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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Edmund Burke

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

Davis, Elmer

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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