Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Fear

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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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 oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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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 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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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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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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

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Foreman, Ed

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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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.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.