Motivational Quotes

Fear

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Fear

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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

Hill, Napoleon

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Eric Schmidt

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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

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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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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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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Dryden, John

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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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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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bible

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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 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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.