Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Keynes, John Maynard

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Renard, Jules

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

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

George Carlin

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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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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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Moorish

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

Ferdinand Foch

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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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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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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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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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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John