Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Bradbury, Ray

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Shakespeare, William

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Northcote, James

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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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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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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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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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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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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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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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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Seneca

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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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

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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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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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

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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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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick