Motivational Quotes

Fear

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

- Hopkins, Tom

Best Quotes about Fear

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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.

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.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Eric Hoffer

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Downes, Donald

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

King, Billie Jean

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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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

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David