Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Maltz, Maxwell

Best Quotes about Fear

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

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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

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

Frances Moore Lappe

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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

Brown, Les

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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 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

23.

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

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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The best safety lies in fear.

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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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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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 defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Downes, Donald

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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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 has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.