Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 what kills us.

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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 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 of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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

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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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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.