Motivational Quotes

Fear

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

- Conrad, Joseph

Best Quotes about Fear

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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.

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

Axiom, Grandma

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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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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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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Fear is what kills us.

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Downes, Donald

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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 is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Bryant, Jean

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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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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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

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.