Motivational Quotes

Fear

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fear

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.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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

Eric Schmidt

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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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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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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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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Dale, Stan

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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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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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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

Renard, Jules

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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 met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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