Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear the man who fears you.

- Proverb, Hasidic

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Northcote, James

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

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

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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

Davis, Elmer

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Renard, Jules

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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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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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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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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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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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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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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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.

Ann Radcliffe

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hoffer, Eric