Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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

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

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Ann Radcliffe

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

10.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

11.

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

12.

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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

14.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Downes, Donald

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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

17.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

18.

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

19.

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Renard, Jules

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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

35.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

43.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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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

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley