Motivational Quotes

Fear

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

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

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Seneca

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Dale, Stan

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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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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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

King, Billie Jean

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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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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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Hasidic

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Davis, Elmer

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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.