Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about 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

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Ann Radcliffe

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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 is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Foreman, Ed

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

Northcote, James

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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

Johnson, John

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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