Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bradbury, Ray

Best Quotes about Fear

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Maclaine, Shirley

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nightingale, Florence

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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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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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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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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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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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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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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 of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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

King, Billie Jean

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Bible

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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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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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

Shakespeare, William

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

Epictetus

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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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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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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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