Motivational Quotes

Fear

The thing I fear most is fear.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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

George Carlin

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Davis, Elmer

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Eric Hoffer

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo