Motivational Quotes

Fear

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

- Claudianus, Claudius

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Edmund Burke

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

George Carlin

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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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 is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.