Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Northcote, James

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.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

11.

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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

14.

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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

30.

"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

31.

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

37.

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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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

41.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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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

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

Eric Hoffer