Motivational Quotes

Fear

I have a fear of failure.

- Montana, Joe

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Johnson, John

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Davis, Elmer

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

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

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

Scheele, Paul R.

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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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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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 without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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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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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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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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

Bryant, Jean

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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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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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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.