Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear makes men believe the worst.

- Rufus, Quintus Curtius

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Nightingale, Earl

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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!!

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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

Claudianus, Claudius

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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

Hoffer, Eric

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Dyson, Freeman

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Shakespeare, William

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

George Carlin

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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 is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.