Motivational Quotes

Fear

Only your mind can produce fear.

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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

Schuller, Robert H.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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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 what kills us.

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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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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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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

Dale, Stan

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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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