Motivational Quotes

Fear

Only your mind can produce fear.

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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

George Carlin

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Eric Schmidt

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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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

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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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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

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Renard, Jules

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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Fear is what kills us.

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Eric Hoffer