Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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 are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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

I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dyson, Freeman

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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

Taylor Swift

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Renard, Jules

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

23.

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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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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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

28.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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.

Stone, Oliver

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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.