Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Fear

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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

Smith, Frederick

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Axiom, Grandma

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Theodosia Garrison

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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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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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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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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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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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.

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

George Carlin

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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

Johnson, John

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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

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.