Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Anderson, Marian

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Fear is what kills us.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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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 fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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 best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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 is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Seneca

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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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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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

George Carlin

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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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

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Ferdinand Foch