Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bradley, Francis H.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

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

Nightingale, Florence

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

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

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Eric Schmidt

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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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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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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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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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.