Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Fear

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

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

Taylor Swift

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Johnson, Samuel

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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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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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 only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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 makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon