Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bryant, Jean

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Johnson, John