Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Best Quotes about Fear

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Edmund Burke

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is what kills us.

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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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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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.