Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Akhenaton

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

10.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

11.

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 the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Paul, Jean

17.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

27.

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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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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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

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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 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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Hoffer, Eric

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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 proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil