Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

George Carlin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Seneca

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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

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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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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

King, Billie Jean

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Renard, Jules

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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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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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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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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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc