Motivational Quotes

Fear

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.

Best Quotes about Fear

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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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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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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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 only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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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

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Dyson, Freeman

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Eric Hoffer

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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 met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Cioran, E. M.