Motivational Quotes

Fear

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

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

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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

Theodosia Garrison

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

10.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

13.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

14.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

15.

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

16.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

19.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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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

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

Claudianus, Claudius

23.

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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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

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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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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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

39.

Fear is what kills us.

40.

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

41.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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

49.

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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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!!