Motivational Quotes

Fear

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Fear

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ferdinand Foch

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Axiom, Grandma

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Northcote, James

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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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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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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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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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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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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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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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 of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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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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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

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De