Motivational Quotes

Fear

The best safety lies in fear.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fear

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

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.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Northcote, James

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Ferdinand Foch

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Epictetus

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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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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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

Wrigley Jr., William

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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 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 can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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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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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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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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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 is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Jameson, Anna

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

Scheele, Paul R.

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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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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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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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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 is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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He without fear is king of the world.