Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Godard, Jean-Luc

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bible

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bryant, Jean

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Seneca

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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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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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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 is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Johnson, John

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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

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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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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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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

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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