Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

George Carlin

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

Fear is what kills us.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Epictetus

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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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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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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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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 the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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