Motivational Quotes

Fear

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Scheele, Paul R.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Proverb, Hasidic

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Anderson, Marian

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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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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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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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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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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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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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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 the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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

Kempis, Thomas

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Bryant, Jean

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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.