Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Axiom, Grandma

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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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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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 guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Dale, Stan

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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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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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 the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Bryant, Jean

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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.

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

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

Ann Radcliffe

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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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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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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

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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!!

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

Eric Hoffer