Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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

Bible

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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 not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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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 is what kills us.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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

Eric Hoffer

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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 is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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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