Motivational Quotes

Fear

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Dyson, Freeman

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

Parsons, Wendell

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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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

11.

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

Anderson, Marian

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

14.

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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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

17.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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 woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

George Carlin

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

31.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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

Johnson, John

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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