Motivational Quotes

Fear

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Fear

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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.

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

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

Downes, Donald

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

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

10.

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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

Renard, Jules

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Parsons, Wendell

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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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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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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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.

32.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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

34.

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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

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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

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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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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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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