Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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.

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

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

Seneca

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

Proverb, Moorish

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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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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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.