Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

- Michael Pritchard

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

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

Downes, Donald

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Fear is what kills us.

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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

Bryant, Jean

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Kafka, Franz

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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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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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Taylor Swift

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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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!!