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

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

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 excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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

Renard, Jules

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

George Carlin

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nightingale, Florence

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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