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

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ann Radcliffe

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Akhenaton

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

10.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

11.

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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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Dale, Stan

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

37.

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

Seneca

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

King, Billie Jean

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Bible

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