Motivational Quotes

Fear

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

- Berryman, John

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Foreman, Ed

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Eric Schmidt

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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

Dyson, Freeman

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

Davis, Elmer

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

Ann Radcliffe

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Smith, Frederick

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Fear is what kills us.

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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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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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

Anderson, Marian

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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

Bradbury, Ray