Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Wrigley Jr., William

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Akhenaton

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Paul, Jean

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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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

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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

15.

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

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus