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 is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Renard, Jules

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

George Carlin

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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

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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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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Dyson, Freeman

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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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