Motivational Quotes

Fear

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.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Taylor Swift

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Anderson, Marian

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dryden, John

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Downes, Donald

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.