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

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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

Kafka, Franz

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

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

Theodosia Garrison

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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

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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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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear is what kills us.

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Seneca

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Murray, Gilbert

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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 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 man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus