Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear the man who fears you.

- Proverb, Hasidic

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Seneca

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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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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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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Fear is what kills us.

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

George Carlin

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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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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De