Motivational Quotes

Fear

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

- Benson, Arthur Christopher

Best Quotes about Fear

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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

Hill, Napoleon

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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

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

Dale, Stan

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

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

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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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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Seneca

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

King, Billie Jean

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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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

Frances Moore Lappe

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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 not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Johnson, John

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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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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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

Eric Schmidt

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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