Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Nightingale, Florence

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Emily Dickinson

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bradbury, Ray

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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

11.

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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 proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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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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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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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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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Theodosia Garrison

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.