Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Renard, Jules

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

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

Eric Hoffer

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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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

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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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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

George Carlin

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Taylor Swift

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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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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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 a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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

Seneca

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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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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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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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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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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Downes, Donald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.