Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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

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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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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Helen Mirren

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

George Carlin

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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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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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Taylor Swift

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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Scheele, Paul R.