Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

- Michael Pritchard

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Northcote, James

10.

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

11.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

12.

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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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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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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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Bryant, Jean

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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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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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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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Shakespeare, William

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.