Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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

Parsons, Wendell

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

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.

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

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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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

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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

King, Billie Jean

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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 is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

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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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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

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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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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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.