Motivational Quotes

Fear

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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

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

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

Fear is what kills us.

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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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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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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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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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Renard, Jules

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Downes, Donald

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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.

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

Bryant, Jean

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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