Motivational Quotes

Fear

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.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

King, Billie Jean

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

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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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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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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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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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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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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

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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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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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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.

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Dale, Stan

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ferdinand Foch