Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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Fear is what kills us.

27.

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

George Carlin

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

Dryden, John

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Seneca

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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 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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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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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Johnson, John

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