Motivational Quotes

Fear

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

- Dr. David M. Burns

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

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

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

Edmund Burke

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Anderson, Marian

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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 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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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Bryant, Jean

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

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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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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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

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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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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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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 gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Renard, Jules

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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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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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.