Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Davis, Elmer

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

King, Billie Jean

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

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

Proverb, Hasidic

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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

Axiom, Grandma

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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 is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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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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

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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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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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

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

Davis, Elmer

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Fear guides more than gratitude.