Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Taylor Swift

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

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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

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

Northcote, James

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Bradbury, Ray

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Seneca

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Downes, Donald

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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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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 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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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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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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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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 oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.