Quotes about fear

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on fear
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"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."

Maclaine, Shirley on fear
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"Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?"

Maclaren, Alexander on fear   

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

Maltz, Maxwell on fear   

"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."

Marden, Orison Swett on fear   

"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. on fear   

"There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him."

Miller, Henry on fear
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"The thing I fear most is fear."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on fear
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"I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on fear
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"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on fear   

"I have a fear of failure."

Montana, Joe on fear   

"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 on fear   

"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 on fear   

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal on fear   

"Fear is the mother of morality."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fear
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"Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid."

Nightingale, Earl on fear
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"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."

Nightingale, Florence on fear   

"You can't underestimate the power of fear."

Nixon, Patricia on fear   

"People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true."

Nixon, Richard M. on fear   

"No Fear."

No Fear Company on fear   

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

Northcote, James on fear   

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

Overstreet, Harry A. on fear   

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

Parsons, Wendell on fear   

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

Patton, George S. on fear   

"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. on fear   

"The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger."

Paul, Jean on fear
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"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed."

Pritchard, Michael on fear
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"He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear."

Proverb on fear
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"That fear may reach all, punish but few."

Proverb on fear   

"A scalded cat dreads cold water."

Proverb on fear   

"People always make the wolf more formidable than he is."

Proverb, French on fear   

"Fear the man who fears you."

Proverb, Hasidic on fear   

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

Proverb, Hasidic on fear
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"He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him."

Proverb, Moorish on fear
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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 on fear
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"There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened."

Renard, Jules on fear   

"Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby."

Renkel, Ruth E. on fear   

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on fear
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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 on fear
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on fear
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