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

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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!!

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

Kafka, Franz

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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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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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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Bible

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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