Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

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

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Nightingale, Florence

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Theodosia Garrison

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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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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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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 is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

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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