Motivational Quotes

Fear

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.

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

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

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

Foreman, Ed

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

Anderson, Marian

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Davis, Elmer

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Bryant, Jean

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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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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Brown, Les

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Ferdinand Foch

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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