Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear the man who fears you.

- Proverb, Hasidic

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Parsons, Wendell

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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 makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear is what kills us.

25.

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

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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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 is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Renard, Jules

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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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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

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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.