Motivational Quotes

Fear

The thing I fear most is fear.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Fear

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Parsons, Wendell

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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 is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

Johnson, Samuel

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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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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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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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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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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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 guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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

Taylor Swift

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self 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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert