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

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

King, Billie Jean

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Dale, Stan

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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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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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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

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