Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bryant, Jean

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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

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

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

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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 less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Renard, Jules

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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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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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 is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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

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Fear is what kills us.

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.