Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Fear

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Northcote, James

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.

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Paul, Jean

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

10.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

George Carlin

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Edmund Burke

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Johnson, John

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

27.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

28.

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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

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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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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear is what kills us.

37.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Renard, Jules

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

49.

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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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs