Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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

George Carlin

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Renard, Jules

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

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Davis, Elmer

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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 is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Northcote, James

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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 what kills us.

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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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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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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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