Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Johnson, Lady Bird

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Emily Dickinson

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Thompson, Dorothy

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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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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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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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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

18.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

George Carlin

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

Johnson, John

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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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 God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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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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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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