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

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Downes, Donald

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

Dryden, John

10.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

11.

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

Bradbury, Ray

12.

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

13.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

14.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

15.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

17.

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

18.

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

Epictetus

20.

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

Patton, George S.

21.

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

22.

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

23.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

24.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

25.

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

Smith, Frederick

26.

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

Theodosia Garrison

27.

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

28.

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

30.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

33.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

34.

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

Anderson, Marian

35.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

36.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

39.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

40.

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

Davis, Elmer

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher