Motivational Quotes

Fear

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Fear

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

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Eric Schmidt

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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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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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dyson, Freeman

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Foreman, Ed

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

Anderson, Marian

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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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

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

Downes, Donald

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Bryant, Jean

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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

Davis, Elmer

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.