Motivational Quotes

Fear

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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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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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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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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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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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Smith, Frederick

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.