Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear makes men believe the worst.

- Rufus, Quintus Curtius

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Seneca

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

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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.

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

Johnson, John

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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 what kills us.

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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 guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

George Carlin

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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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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