Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is what kills us.

Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Eric Hoffer

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Eric Schmidt

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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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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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Seneca

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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 of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug