Motivational Quotes

Fear

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Fear

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

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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.

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

Dryden, John

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

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

King, Billie Jean

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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.

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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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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb, Moorish

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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Bible

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Seneca

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Nightingale, Florence

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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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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

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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

Renard, Jules