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

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Davis, Elmer

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Downes, Donald

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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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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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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 that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Bible

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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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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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Johnson, John

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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