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

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

Craig, Roger

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Seneca

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

Johnson, Samuel

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ann Radcliffe

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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 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

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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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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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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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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

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

Downes, Donald

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Bradbury, Ray

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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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 is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Eric Schmidt

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Eric Hoffer

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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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

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo