Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

- Michael Pritchard

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

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

Dryden, John

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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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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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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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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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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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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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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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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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

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Fear is what kills us.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Wrigley Jr., William