Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

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

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Eric Hoffer

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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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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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Nightingale, Florence

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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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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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

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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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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Shakespeare, William

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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 defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fear is what kills us.

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

Edmund Burke

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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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