Motivational Quotes

Fear

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Fear

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Eric Hoffer

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

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

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

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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 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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Patton, George S.

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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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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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.

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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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