Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Best Quotes about Fear

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

Emily Dickinson

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Renard, Jules

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

George Carlin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Bryant, Jean

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Paul, Jean

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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.