Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Fear

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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

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

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Ferdinand Foch

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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!!

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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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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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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 proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

George Carlin

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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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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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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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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Davis, Elmer

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

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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 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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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Downes, Donald

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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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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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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