Motivational Quotes

Fear

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

- Lactantius, Lucius C.

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

Davis, Elmer

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

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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

Seneca

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Theodosia Garrison

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Eric Hoffer

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dyson, Freeman

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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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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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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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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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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Renard, Jules

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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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