Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Eric Schmidt

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Northcote, James

11.

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

Downes, Donald

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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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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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

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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 scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Taylor Swift

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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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

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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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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

33.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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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.

44.

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Bible

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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.