Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

11.

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

12.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

13.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

14.

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

Eric Schmidt

15.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Seneca

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

Edmund Burke

20.

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

Bryant, Jean

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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.

22.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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.

26.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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

30.

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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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 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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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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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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

39.

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

40.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

44.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

45.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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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.

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

Anderson, Marian