Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is excitement without breath.

- Heller, Robert

Best Quotes about Fear

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Nightingale, Florence

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

George Carlin

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Downes, Donald

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

Northcote, James

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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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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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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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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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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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

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bryant, Jean

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil