Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the mind killer

- Herbert, Frank

Best Quotes about Fear

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Keynes, John Maynard

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Nightingale, Florence

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

George Carlin

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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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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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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 is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Great fear is concealed under daring.