Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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

George Carlin

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Hasidic

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Eric Schmidt

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Johnson, John

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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 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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray