Motivational Quotes

Fear

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fear

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Patton, George S.

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

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

10.

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

11.

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 hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

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

16.

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

Francis Quarles

17.

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

18.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

19.

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

Axiom, Grandma

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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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.

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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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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

26.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

27.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

28.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

Eric Schmidt

33.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

34.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

36.

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

Theodosia Garrison

37.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

40.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Schuller, Robert H.

43.

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

Carnegie, Dale

44.

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Lincoln, Abraham