Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Godard, Jean-Luc

Best Quotes about Fear

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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.

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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 is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Bryant, Jean

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Anderson, Marian

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 what kills us.

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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

Johnson, John

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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

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges