Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Overstreet, Harry A.

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

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

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Kafka, Franz

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Harvey, Joan C.

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Davis, Elmer

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Anderson, Marian

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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