Motivational Quotes

Fear

The best safety lies in fear.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

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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.

11.

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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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Bradbury, Ray

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Taylor Swift

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

Eric Hoffer

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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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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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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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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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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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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

Johnson, John

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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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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 is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon