Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bryant, Jean

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Renard, Jules

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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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.