Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Edmund Burke

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Bryant, 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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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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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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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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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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

Epictetus

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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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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Seneca

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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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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric