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

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.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Fear is what kills us.

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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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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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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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 nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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