Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Fear

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

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

King, Billie Jean

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Foreman, Ed

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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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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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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 comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bible

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.