Motivational Quotes

Fear

Great fear is concealed under daring.

- Lucan, F. L.

Best Quotes about Fear

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Johnson, Samuel

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Edmund Burke

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Kafka, Franz

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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 champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

George Carlin

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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 excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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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 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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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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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Seneca

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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.