Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bradbury, Ray

Best Quotes about Fear

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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

Wrigley Jr., William

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Renard, Jules

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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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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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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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Nightingale, Florence

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

Claudianus, Claudius

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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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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.

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Dyson, Freeman

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dale, Stan

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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

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

Taylor Swift

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb