Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Theodosia Garrison

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Craig, Roger

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Brown, Les

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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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 is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.