Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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 God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Paul, Jean

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Dale, Stan

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Seneca

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

Bryant, Jean

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Theodosia Garrison

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.