Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Eric Schmidt

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

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!!

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Taylor Swift

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.

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

Frances Moore Lappe

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor 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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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

18.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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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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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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 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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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

Seneca

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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 scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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