Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

Johnson, John

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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

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

Smith, Frederick

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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 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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Downes, Donald

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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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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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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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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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Edmund Burke

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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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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William