Motivational Quotes

Fear

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

- Farrah Gray

Best Quotes about 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

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Akhenaton

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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

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

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Eric Hoffer

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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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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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Fear is what kills us.

38.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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 fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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 that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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