Motivational Quotes

Fear

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

- Akhenaton

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is what kills us.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

George Carlin

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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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.

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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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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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic