Motivational Quotes

Fear

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Fear

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Seneca

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Bradbury, Ray

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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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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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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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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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 the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Eric Schmidt

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Bryant, Jean

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von