Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Eric Hoffer

Best Quotes about Fear

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!!

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

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

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Hoffer, Eric

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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 defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Taylor Swift

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

Renard, Jules

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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

Edmund Burke

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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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.

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Downes, Donald

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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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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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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

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger