Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Wrigley Jr., William

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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

Claudianus, Claudius

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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

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.

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

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Axiom, Grandma

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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

Nightingale, Florence

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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

Eric Schmidt

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Downes, Donald

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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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

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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

Bible

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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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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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