Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

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.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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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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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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

Eric Schmidt

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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

Davis, Elmer

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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

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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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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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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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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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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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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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