Motivational Quotes

Fear

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Fear

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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

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

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Foreman, Ed

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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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 guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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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 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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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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

Paul, Jean

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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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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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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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Seneca

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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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

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

Axiom, Grandma

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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 man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic