Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Johnson, John

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

Akhenaton

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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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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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Paul, Jean

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

Epictetus

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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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Fear is what kills us.

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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.

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Eric Hoffer

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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.