Motivational Quotes

Fear

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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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 scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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 know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Anderson, Marian

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Edmund Burke

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

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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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Seneca

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.