Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Johnson, Lady Bird

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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 not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kafka, Franz

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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 excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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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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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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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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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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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Ferdinand Foch

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.