Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

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.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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

Bryant, Jean

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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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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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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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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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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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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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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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Downes, Donald

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.