Motivational Quotes

Fear

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

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

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

Downes, Donald

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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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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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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Fear is what kills us.

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Dale, Stan

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Seneca

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

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

Epictetus

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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 is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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