Motivational Quotes

Fear

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Fear

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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 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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

18.

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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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

31.

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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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

35.

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

Eric Hoffer

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

37.

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

Carnegie, Dale

38.

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

Axiom, Grandma

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Eric Schmidt

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Foreman, Ed