Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Kafka, Franz

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

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Anderson, Marian

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Paul, Jean

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

Renard, Jules

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Downes, Donald

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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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

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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

Johnson, John

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.