Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Northcote, James

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

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Frances Moore Lappe

Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Bryant, Jean

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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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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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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

Seneca

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.