Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eric Schmidt

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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 not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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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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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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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Shakespeare, William

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