Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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

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

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Baudrillard, Jean

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Fear is what kills us.

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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.

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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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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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 the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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.

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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