Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Emily Dickinson

Best Quotes about Fear

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Bryant, Jean

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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

11.

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Edmund Burke

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Downes, Donald

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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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 is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Bible

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

Renard, Jules

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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