Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Eric Hoffer

Best Quotes about Fear

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

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

Foreman, Ed

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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 may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Bible

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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