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 mind killer

Herbert, Frank

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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

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.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Taylor Swift

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Anderson, Marian

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.