Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

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

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

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.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Fear is what kills us.

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

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Eric Hoffer

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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

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Taylor Swift

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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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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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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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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio