Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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

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

Edmund Burke

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Smith, Frederick

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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

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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 the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Johnson, John

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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 is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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

Seneca

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.