Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

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

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Bryant, Jean

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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Fear is what kills us.

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Northcote, James

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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