Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

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

Renard, Jules

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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.

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

George Carlin

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

Paul, Jean

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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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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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Scheele, Paul R.