Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

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

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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

Epictetus

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Renard, Jules

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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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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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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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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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 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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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Ferdinand Foch

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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.

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

Downes, Donald

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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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 is what kills us.

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song