Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Carnegie, Dale

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

Foreman, Ed

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Epictetus

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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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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

George Carlin

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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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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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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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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.

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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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

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Akhenaton

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston