Motivational Quotes

Fear

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

- Berryman, John

Best Quotes about Fear

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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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 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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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Seneca

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

George Carlin

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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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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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People die of fright and live of confidence.