Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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

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

Proverb, Hasidic

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Kafka, Franz

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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

Carnegie, Dale

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Theodosia Garrison

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Brown, Les

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

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

Seneca

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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.