Motivational Quotes

Fear

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

- Apollinaire, Guillaume

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Scheele, Paul R.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Dale, Stan

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Johnson, John

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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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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The thing I fear most is 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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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

King, Billie Jean

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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.