Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Edmund Burke

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

13.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

14.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

15.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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

George Carlin

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Patton, George S.

25.

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

Bible

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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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 can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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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

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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

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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.

45.

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 mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

48.

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

Nightingale, Earl

49.

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

Dyson, Freeman