Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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 darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Taylor Swift

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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 what kills us.

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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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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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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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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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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Dyson, Freeman

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor