Motivational Quotes

Fear

Only your mind can produce fear.

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Fear

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Scheele, Paul R.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Johnson, John

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Anderson, Marian

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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

Shakespeare, William

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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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

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Eric Schmidt

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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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

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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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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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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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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

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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

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Seneca