Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Edmund Burke

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Kafka, Franz

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

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

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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 guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Renard, Jules

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Axiom, Grandma

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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

Eric Schmidt

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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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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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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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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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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