Motivational Quotes

Fear

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

- Dr. David M. Burns

Best Quotes about Fear

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.

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

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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

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

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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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Renard, Jules

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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 the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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

Taylor Swift

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Eric Schmidt

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Bradbury, Ray

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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

Dryden, John

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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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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 best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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