Motivational Quotes

Fear

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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Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is what kills us.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Ann Radcliffe

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Davis, Elmer

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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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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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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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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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Dryden, John

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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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 main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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

Renard, Jules

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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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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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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

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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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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil