Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Eric Schmidt

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Brown, Les

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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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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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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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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.