Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Fear

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Edmund Burke

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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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 is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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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

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

Renard, Jules

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Dryden, John

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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

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Northcote, James

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Seneca

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear is what kills us.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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 is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon