Motivational Quotes

Fear

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

- Scheele, Paul R.

Best Quotes about Fear

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

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.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Renard, Jules

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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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

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

21.

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

Johnson, John

22.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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

24.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

25.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Downes, Donald

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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!!

29.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

34.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Theodosia Garrison

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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

39.

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 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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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 use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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.