Motivational Quotes

Fear

The thing I fear most is fear.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Brown, Les

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

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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

Axiom, Grandma

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

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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

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Epictetus

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

George Carlin

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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