Motivational Quotes

Fear

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

- Bradbury, Ray

Best Quotes about Fear

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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

King, Billie Jean

Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Anderson, Marian

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

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

Seneca

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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

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Bible

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Hoffman, Bob

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

Epictetus

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Hitchcock, Alfred

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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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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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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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Hoffer, Eric

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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