Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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

Kafka, Franz

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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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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.

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug