Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Ann Radcliffe

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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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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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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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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Taylor Swift

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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

Seneca

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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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

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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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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

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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.

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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.

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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

Downes, Donald

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.