Motivational Quotes

Fear

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Fear

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Claudianus, Claudius

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Kafka, Franz

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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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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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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

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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

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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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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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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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

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Keynes, John Maynard