Motivational Quotes

Fear

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Fear

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Scheele, Paul R.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dyson, Freeman

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

11.

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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

Foreman, Ed

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Eric Hoffer

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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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

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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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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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

George Carlin

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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

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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