Motivational Quotes

Fear

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Nixon, Richard M.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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

Bible

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Frances Moore Lappe

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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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 thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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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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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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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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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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