Motivational Quotes

Fear

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

- Young, Edward

Best Quotes about Fear

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Thompson, Dorothy

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Wrigley Jr., William

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Axiom, Grandma

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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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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Fear is what kills us.

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

King, Billie Jean

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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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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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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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 guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Renard, Jules

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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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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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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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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Ferdinand Foch