Motivational Quotes

Fear

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

- Young, Edward

Best Quotes about Fear

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Renard, Jules

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

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

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

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

Kafka, Franz

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Fear is what kills us.

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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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.

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Hoffer, Eric

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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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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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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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.

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Edmund Burke