Motivational Quotes

Fear

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

- Gaye, Marvin

Best Quotes about Fear

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

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

Northcote, James

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Eric Schmidt

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

10.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

11.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

12.

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

Theodosia Garrison

13.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

14.

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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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

18.

Fear is what kills us.

19.

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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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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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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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

George Carlin

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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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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

31.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

33.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

38.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

39.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

40.

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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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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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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.

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

49.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.