Motivational Quotes

Fear

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.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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

Eric Hoffer

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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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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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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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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

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Bryant, Jean

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Axiom, Grandma

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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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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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Bradbury, Ray

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