Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- George Carlin

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Patton, George S.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

Fear is what kills us.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Akhenaton

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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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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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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

16.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Seneca

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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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

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Proverb, Moorish

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Downes, Donald

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.