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

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Seneca

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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 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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Smith, Frederick

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Taylor Swift

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Theodosia Garrison

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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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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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